This is an analysis of the poem Post-Vacation Tristesse that begins with:
The Jumbo Jet has barely shuddered off
The ground, and I'm depressed. My scuba mask ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXa XXa Xbb XXX bcdXddc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101110101 0110011101 11111111 11100110110 110111010100 01001011 01011000011 110100110001 001111110 1110111110 101011110 10001111000 100011110 11101001 1101001101 101011101 10101100100 11011111111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 126
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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 is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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