This is an analysis of the poem I Am Visited By An Editor And A Poet that begins with:

I had just won $115 from the headshakers and
was naked upon my bed ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabXaXXcdedaXXefeXXcggbXXXdXhiaihfXabchefcfX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 44,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11111001001 1100111 10001101100010 1111010010110 111010101 11011110011101 1111011 101001111 1110011011 11101110100 101111111 11001010111111 1101010110101 11101011100 1010100111010 11001010 10111010100 1111101011111 1111101101 111110001 111100100010101 1100101110101 10111001001011 10100100111011000101 110001010 11101100101010 11100101011 1111010110010011011100 101011010111101101 11011010110 1010010011111 1110 1101001010010101 11111111111 111 11110101010101 1101001110101 11011111 111101101101 1111011010111010 110101 1001110100111000 111 10100
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1997
  • Average number of words per stanza: 382
  • Amount of lines: 44
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; i, and, of are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

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