This is an analysis of the poem Two Young Men, 23 To 24 Years Old that begins with:

He'd been sitting in the cafe since ten-thirty
expecting him to turn up any minute....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcdeefagbegfhgeeXddiceXichbfX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 30,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101000011110 01010111001 111111111011 011101101001111010 1110010110 01000011010 101111011 11010110110 11110101 11101111 010111111010 11010010101 01001011110 11110110 100101110111 01110101 11101101 1011100100 0100111 0011001010 1010100110 111101001011 111001010100100 11011010101 110001011010 1001001111011 1010111101 1100101010 1011010010 10110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1282
  • Average number of words per stanza: 220
  • Amount of lines: 30
  • 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, they are repeated.

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

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