This is an analysis of the poem Calling Him Back From Layoff that begins with:
I called a man today. After he said
hello and I said hello came a pause...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abc aab dbb ebe bfa Xbc fgh hXb iaa dca gfg feg XcbXi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,5,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101011011 0111101101 1010110 010010101111 1111011111 111001111 10111111 1101101 10011100101 10011101110 101001101 1011101110 1101001 1101110011 11111111 111011110 01110010 10111 1011011 001010100 01001111 0011111 100110111 1010101011 11111111 0011001 10111010111 001011001 110111010 0111001110 11110010 10111111111 01100100010 1101111001 0100100101 101101011010 1110100101 1000101010 101010111 1
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 100
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; i, said, hello, and, for, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words painted, with are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines said, cars are repeated).
The poet repeated the same word other at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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