This is an analysis of the poem Do You Want Affidavits? that begins with:

THERE'S a hole in the bottom of the sea.
Do you want affidavits?...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XAbAbbaXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1010010001 1111010 10100101011 1111010 1111010011010101011 111100100101011 111011 11111101011010101111100101011010 11111111010010100100100011011110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 577
  • Average number of words per stanza: 112
  • Amount of lines: 9
  • Average number of symbols per line: 63 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 12
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, there, for are repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines you is repeated).

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