This is an analysis of the poem Chicago Zen that begins with:
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Now tidy your house,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a Xbbc X de Xf eg h ie fc ic Xc X dh gf ae ac i jh hX fj eX g X aak dkhe Xhi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,1,2,2,2,1,2,2,2,2,1,2,2,2,2,1,2,2,2,2,1,1,3,4,3,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 11011 101001101 1110101 1110 1 1111111 10101010 0101110 1111101110 110001001010 10010101010 1010 1011 1100111 0010111 1010110101 01101 111110 0101001000 111111001 1 11111111 0101001 1111111010 100101010 11000101 010001101 101101111 01100101 110101 1110 101001 1100011011 111011000 01101111 11011001010 110110 111101 110011010 1 1111011 01001011 11 10101 1101 001 01 11 101 11101
- Amount of stanzas: 26
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 50
- Average number of words per stanza: 9
- Amount of lines: 51
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word of is repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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