This is an analysis of the poem On Not Flying To Hawaii that begins with:
I could be the waitress
in the airport restaurant...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaXaXcaddXaefghgebd XbcXhcfgc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110010 0011101 1010101111010 111000101011 10100000101 10100010100 110100101101011100 110010100 0010110010011 11001111011101011 100111111 11100101 11010101011 101011 1010001001010 0001011010101 110010110100010 0010110100101 10100101101101010 10110011 1111000101010010 11010011011 0100101111110010 11101110 111100101111001 110000101100 0101111101 11100010 0010111110101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 636
- Average number of words per stanza: 117
- Amount of lines: 29
- 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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; her, of, i, want, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words or, i are repeated.
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