This is an analysis of the poem Last Answers that begins with:
I wrote a poem on the mist
And a woman asked me what I meant by it....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaXXX XXaXXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101 10101111110 11111100010001 111100111 1101100101110 0010100100010 110 011111101111 0011101 1111111011111 111011110110110 11010111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 256
- Average number of words per stanza: 53
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, and, of, mist, all are 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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