This is an analysis of the poem Immune that begins with:

When you're muffled to the chin and
You wear flannel next the skin and... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaaXbbXX cccaddda
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11100011 11101011 10101101 1110101 10101000 10101010 10101100 0010111 10111110 01101110 00101010 101000011 00111010 10101010 10101010 1110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 251
  • Average number of words per stanza: 47
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; and is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines and is repeated).

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