This is an analysis of the poem Poetry Reading that begins with:
poetry readings have to be some of the saddest
damned things ever,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXccbdefbdcbbgdghfaeigdjfgc Xbdj dj kbhiikXgaXX llad
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 28,4,2,11,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001010010010 1110 010000101100 110111011 101 101010 101010100 11011000 010 1010101010 10101 11100011 110 111011100 11 0110 111111 00100100100 1010 1001000101001 11010 1110100 11111 01110110110 111101010 101101001110 0 011 110110 1101111010110 1101111010 1101 0111010 1111101 01010101010 001100110 0110011010 1 0110111 010101010 01100001011 0110011 1100100101 0111111 011100101 101 101 1 1
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 264
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 49
- 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; their, i, ashamed are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words never, i, a, anything are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines year, anything are repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase anything connects the lines.
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