This is an analysis of the poem Delta Flight 659 that begins with:
—to Sean Penn
I'm writing this on a plane, Sean Penn,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a aaXbXa caXdef dgeacX ahahfd ahaaha gfXgab dXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,6,6,6,6,6,6,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011 010010111 0111010101 1011001010111100 110010011111110101 1010100100101000 101011001110001 1001011101001011010 11010101010111010 1111111010100 011111110110010 11110101101010 11101011010 0111101010110011110 0101111111011000100 110101111110110010 1101011000101110011 1011010110 111101001011 1010110011110100111 110011111110 11101001110000101 10101011100 10110011100100 010111010010 110110111 101111111110111 101010110 11111010111011 11111010 101110101101111011 11010111101010110110 1001001010 11110100101 1010100010011010100 011111010101111 110101110100111010 111011101110 010100101111100 010101010110
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 269
- Average number of words per stanza: 50
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 53 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, i, of, your, you, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, the are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines penn is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word penn at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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