This is an analysis of the poem While Lounging In A Chair that begins with:

While lounging in a chair, I looked up at the ceiling
Where, teasing my imagination,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXX bacd beXXXcaed
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1100011111010 110101010 0101010101 111101011 0101010101011 10010111010 0100110101 1101010 101111111011 1101001 1101000101 1101010 110101010101 0101010 100101010 1000101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 332
  • Average number of words per stanza: 55
  • Amount of lines: 18
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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