This is an analysis of the poem The Expert that begins with:
Bill? Oh, him ... Well, he's taken a knock.
Real sad when I spoke to him last;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbcbc dedecccc fbfbgcgc hghgccXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111001 11111011 100100101 1100111 10101101 1001101 1110110101 11100101 1111111 111011111 0011011101 1101001 110110101 10100101 111110101 11111001 111111111 1110101 110100111 1111101 10110101 11111001 11011010111 11011001 111111001 1111001 110100111 111101 11111101 11111101 101011011111 110100001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 301
- Average number of words per stanza: 58
- Amount of lines: 32
- 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; him, more, one are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word code at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase code connects the lines.
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