This is an analysis of the poem Layover that begins with:
Making love in the sun, in the morning sun
in a hotel room...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXbacbddXdedXcbdbXbbeffbd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 26,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10100100101 00011 01010 1111110 101001 101101010111 101101111 1101 10110101010 111010100 101110111 1 11000 100001110 10101101011 111101 110111111 11101101 1100111 1111110010 11011 1111101011 11101111 11111101 0101 101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 777
- Average number of words per stanza: 156
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; in, making, love, and, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words making, and are repeated.
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- summary of Layover;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
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