This is an analysis of the poem He Asked About The Quality that begins with:

He left the office where he'd been given
a trivial, poorly paid job...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbcadefdXfghbihjjeihffbXjjgca
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 30,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101011010 01001011 1011101010100 110100101 11111101 1111011110 10001101010 1100010110111 011000100 111010101 110011011 1011111001 1001001111 1110101110 110101010 101101011010 110011110100 1101010000100 111110110 11101010 1010110011 010011 1001001 11110010101 10101011111 100100111011 1110101111 0101001011 101001011010101 1010111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1245
  • Average number of words per stanza: 219
  • Amount of lines: 30
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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; his, their are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word he is repeated.

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

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