This is an analysis of the poem August 17th that begins with:
Surely I will be disquieted
by the hospital, that body zone-...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xabbbbcbdeddbfcgg XhbheaehafagXcbifijXj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 17,21,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10100100 101101101 10100101 101001111101 10101110110 10101010111 1010011110101001 111010 010110111 1001101 0101111101 1111101110 1100011 101110 11111011 110101101 11100111 10011011 1011101110 11111010 0110100 1110101 1000110101 111111011011 1010111110 110101101 01011011110 10110110011 11010010010 10110101001110 10100111111100 1010010101011 1110101111101 101010111010110 110000100100101 11001010000111 11110110110 1
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 744
- Average number of words per stanza: 141
- Amount of lines: 38
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; bodies, their, you'll, not, and, patient are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words bodies, each are repeated.
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