This is an analysis of the poem Having The Flu And With Nothing Else To Do that begins with:
I read a book about John Dos Passos and according to
the book once radical-communist...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabXX c dce XXdX cebdec ae a Xb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,1,3,4,6,2,1,2,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110101111010100 011100100 1101001011101010 1100 101101 010101110 11010100 011001001010000101 111100 110 101001110011 0100 00101110101 1101100111 1100 010 100100 11101010010 1010 10110111110 1 10 1011 1
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 81
- Average number of words per stanza: 15
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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