This is an analysis of the poem Albert Einstein To Archibald Macleish that begins with:
I should have been a plumber fixing drains.
And mending pure white bathtubs for the great Diogenes...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXa bXbXXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110010101 1101111101100 111111011100 1101110111100 110001011101110 100 010100101111 111010100
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 119
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, all are repeated.
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