This is an analysis of the poem Hemingway Never Did This that begins with:

I read that he lost a suitcase full of manuscripts on a
train and that they never were recovered....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XabcdabeXcdfbfX XedcXg acff XhgXhag
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,6,4,7,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111110111010110 1111100010 111010000 101011101110 010010 111101001 10 111001001 1010 11110001010 010 011101010001 101010 11111001 0 111101101010 11011011 11010 010110101 11101000100 1 11001010100 10 11111110 1 01111101 1110101 101 111111 1 1
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 165
  • Average number of words per stanza: 32
  • Amount of lines: 31
  • Average number of symbols per line: 26 (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.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, and are repeated.

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  • summary of Hemingway Never Did This;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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