This is an analysis of the poem About My Very Tortured Friend, Peter that begins with:
he lives in a house with a swimming pool
and says the job is ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdefbgbggfdhijcic kddddblkikf khmnjo gkpifcagqjqk gldmdkhmgjdcigqbhdeoamlicinqmpomggikXqdo imm Xmbpq
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 19,11,6,12,40,3,5,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1100100101 11010 101 1011111110 110 1010110 11110110111 1011110100 100 111111111000 11110 1 11101011100 111111 1101111 1110 11111010111 10101 100 1111101011011 011001011 11111001 110100101110 101100111011 10101010 11111100010010 101111 11011011 11110111011 111101 110 1 111 1111110 0 1 1111111111110100 11101111100111 111011111101001 01111 1101011010 1 111000111111010 111111011101110 111111111 11111001110110110 11101111 1 1100110111110 10111100 1 110101 01100 1011110110111 1101 11 1111011101110 10 11110 10 1 111011111110 1000101 11101 111011111111001 101011 1 1 1111111001111101 011 100 100111111 10101 11110101111110011 1100 111110011110 010 111011 10110101 1 101001100 01011101001100 0011111111 1 10010 11 1 1 1101 1001 0 1110010 1110111111000 00111 110
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 404
- Average number of words per stanza: 82
- Amount of lines: 101
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; some, this, you, re, and, look, i, like are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines a is repeated).
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