This is an analysis of the poem Telegram that begins with:
I SAW a telegram handed a two hundred pound man at a desk. And the little scrap of paper charged the air like a set of crystals in a chemist's tube...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXX aXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010110011011101101010101011010100010100100101 11101101111101010111101101001101110111010101010111 111111101111110101011010001110 111011010100010110100101 110110011001001111001001 110110110010101110111111111111111111110101000
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 859
- Average number of words per stanza: 179
- Amount of lines: 7
- Average number of symbols per line: 122 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 26
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of, to, he are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
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