This is an analysis of the poem Small Conversation In The Afternoon With John Fante that begins with:
he said, "I was working in Hollywood when Faulkner was
working in Hollywood and he was...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXXXb bccX aX XX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,4,2,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic tetrameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 111011001011101 100101111 01111101110 1001011111011 00010 1101101 10111101111111 1011110111111 10110101110110 100 111101111 10 101101100110 110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 130
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; he, i, day are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines was is repeated).
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