This is an analysis of the poem Drunken Memories Of Anne Sexton that begins with:
The first and last time I met
my ex-lover Anne Sexton was at...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaXXbcbdXbefddaXfeXXaec
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0111111 111011011 0011001001 110101001010 1110101001 0101010101 10011101 1011011 0111101 1001111 1011111 1101011 0111010 11111 1101011 10111 1101011100100 10101100 10111111 1111110 111001 10010101 1101001 11101001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 745
- Average number of words per stanza: 145
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; i, what are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines i is repeated).
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