This is an analysis of the poem The Misunderstanding that begins with:
I'm charmed yet chagrined by this misunderstanding--
As when, after a riot, my city's smashed-in stores appear all...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xabc XdXae XcbdX dXebdXcb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,5,5,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011011010010 1110010110101011 101100100111010 1000100110111 11100101011011 1111110110100 10101110011000010 011 1111000110111 11110101110010000101 1111111011111 1111100100101 10001010010010101110 1 1111111101110 010010001110101101 11 1011100101100010 10100101010101110 100100111111111 11
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 212
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 50 (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; i, like are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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