This is an analysis of the poem Bricklayer Love that begins with:

I thought of killing myself because I am only a bricklayer
and you a woman who loves the man who runs a drug store....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XX XX XX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11010110111100110 11010110111011 11111101111011 1011110100010101 1010011101011010 101111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 117
  • Average number of words per stanza: 23
  • Amount of lines: 6
  • Average number of symbols per line: 58 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 12
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i is repeated.

    The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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