This is an analysis of the poem I Chop Some Parsley While Listening To Art Blakey's Version Of "Three Blind Mice" that begins with:

And I start wondering how they came to be blind.
If it was congenital, they could be brothers and sister,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbc dcdX bcef cXbg fbfc agXf eXfXXdb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,7,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111100111001 001010011010110 11100110 1010010110 110010100111 001001001101 01 0110010101000 1011010011010 10101001011 011101101010 10111011 11011010 1110011100101 11001011110 10101 11111111 00101001010 10100011 11011011011 11010100011 101011110011 110111010 100101010111 11111010110 110110110 011111010 10101110 11000011 10010010101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 152
  • Average number of words per stanza: 29
  • Amount of lines: 30
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; and is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word if is repeated.

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