Remembering An Account Executive by Alan Dugan: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Remembering An Account Executive that begins with:

He had a back office in his older brother’s
advertising agency and understood the human asshole. ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcadXaaeaaXeadeXXXbcaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 23,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110110001010 1010100110101010 110101010010110 110110111010 101010011111110 010010101001110 111110101011100 10101011011101 0011001101110110 10110011101011110 1100110101001010 01010101100101 10100101111 01011111110101 1111110101000100 1011010101001 1010010111100 110101011010 1111101001111 0011010011001 00110111010010 11111100011 10011010101111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1233
  • Average number of words per stanza: 230
  • Amount of lines: 23
  • 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; as, would are repeated.

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