This is an analysis of the poem What Would Freud Say? that begins with:

Wasn't on purpose that I drilled
through my finger or the nurse ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abacdefaaXfghhehihbhcXcbaaXjkaacihalbXXgbgdgccgXcjckmXXXcgXhffXbacelejkma
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 73,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10110111 1110101 110101 1111101 01011010 0100010 1111 111101 10110 010111010 1001001 11110 00111 111110 1001001010 11101101 11111 0100110100 11001 011001 110010 101000101 1111100 010110 1010001 00111 1001 1111 1001000 1110001 11011 1101 010010010 10100100 1111 10101 1100111 110111 101110 10101 11101 1010 01011010 01110 11111 0101101 1110 10111 10101101 01011 1001101 001010100 1100101 00111010 100001 0100010 01001101 110110 11101 10101010 101001 10110001 101111 11011 11101 1011001 10101 110101 1101110 10101 11100 0101001 010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1850
  • Average number of words per stanza: 335
  • Amount of lines: 73
  • Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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  • summary of What Would Freud Say?;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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