This is an analysis of the poem Chicago Poet that begins with:
I saluted a nobody.
I saw him in a looking-glass. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbbXXX cXXbaXc cX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10100111 11100101 11101 11001101010101 1011010 111001110 111010011 101011 10110110 10101001 110101 10111 11111010 11010101 1101101 111111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 161
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
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 poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, he, when are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines i is repeated).
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