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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  • history of its creation;
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