This is an analysis of the poem Personality that begins with:
Musings of a Police Reporter in the Identification Bureau
You have loved forty women, but you have only one thumb....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X aXabcXbXXXXcXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,14,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 1000010100001001010 11110101111011 11101010111110 11 1110111001011 11011011111 10100111101 100110111001 11110111101 1001010111001 1111011111100 1110110101 111101 110011011110 011000
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 367
- Average number of words per stanza: 69
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (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; you, have, and, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word you is repeated.
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