This is an analysis of the poem Something For The Touts, The Nuns, The Grocery Clerks, And You . . . that begins with:
we have everything and we have nothing
and some men do it in churches...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbbcbXbbacdbedfaagheijbajggkflgk AmgbbbjaXiljbajbebekXjmbhbXbb nhhmhjljoebnajghjmhpgXhaq AjgmXabiajelhpke ieigbghhdpreiiihgorbfbbopocbnf hXXfjXqeaakd ddr X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 32,29,25,16,30,12,3,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110111110 11110010 11110110101 01 111100101 100001000 01011 1011101 101101 011010011 001001010 11010101 0100111 101111000110 100010 101110 00101011001 0101011110 1 1 1 111101101 1010111 10110 0111001011 01111 1010100101 0111011 101000101010 111010101 00101 1111011 1110111110 101101001001 0101111 1011011101 1010001110011 01001111 10010110111 101101111001 101110011010 1 011011101 010110101001 1101001 01010110100 1010100101001 1010010110101 111 11101101101 1100100110101 110111011 010100111111 110111111 0110101101 010 111111110 01100111 11111010 01011111 010110 110110010 010101 0111111 1111010111 1010011000101 110001000101101 10100101101 111001001 1111001010 001001111 011101101001 001111010 101111110 10100111101 01111011011 101111111 111110 110101111 1010101001011011 11110100110 1011011101 101 11110100010 11011010 1111110 1110111110 1101011011 111110101 11110101011 0101110010 1111101110 010011101111 111001101 011110110 1111101111 111010101 1101001101 101110110010 110010101110 111111111 01111101 11011101 10011010100 1101111101 10011101 11010101 0101100101 0101111100 10111111100 10101000110100 1111001110 1010010111 100101011 1110111 0100110101000 111000111000 010011001010 11100111 011011100011 001101010111 0101010011 01011001010 1110101110 01001110010 01100101100 110101010010 111001011 00110101101 11011110100 1011010100 1110 00110011 100101001 1011011000 10110111110 01010111 110101 10111010 10001111 1101110 110 10110010 111110 1101000 10100 101 01011010
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 666
- Average number of words per stanza: 123
- Amount of lines: 149
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; and, something, days, who, men, at, like, or, go, you, sometimes, not, bad, to, some, of, want, them are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, something, it's, or, the, some are repeated.
The author used the same word we at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines men, in, be, looking are repeated).
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