This is an analysis of the poem Monologue Of A Broadway Actress that begins with:

Said an actress from Broadway
time had pillaged like Troy: ...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XabbcXcdbeffgXdchiXjjXfgbiXcgbebkgafbhgfhcfkbibXcbgakX Xk
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 54,2,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1110011 111011 1110111 1101101111 11011011 00110 1110010 111011101 1110 101010 10111011 111 011001 100111001000 1101101 0110110101 10101011011 11111 011010 0101000110 01111 0010111000 111 011001010 11110010 1011011 11111 110101011110 11 111100 1110 111010100 1011001 1111011 111110101 111111111110 111 11010010 00101010101 1111 1010010 100101011100 1111 001111 010011101 0111101001 1111 0111011 01011 001111100 101010001100 010101 010101001 1101011 1 010111101011
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 857
  • Average number of words per stanza: 157
  • Amount of lines: 57
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; up, builds are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words no, about, without are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines role is repeated).

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