This is an analysis of the poem Twenty-year Marriage that begins with:
You keep me waiting in a truck
with its one good wheel stuck in the ditch, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbXXbXXcXXaXXXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110001 001011001 11101011001 1011101101101 1101110111110 10111101 110101 001111110001 110111010 11010001 11111111001 1110111111 01111101 11011101 100111011 11101111010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 709
- Average number of words per stanza: 131
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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