This is an analysis of the poem Answering The Usual Questions that begins with:
My name is Johnny Vincent Brown,
I live on Leicester Court, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd efefdgdg bhbhXici
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101 111101 11111111 111111 11110111 1111011 111011101 110101 10001101 111101 11111111 010101 11111101 111101 11111111 111101 11010111 111111 11110111 110101 10011111 110101 10111111 110111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 244
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 24
- 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; an', i, i'm are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words an', i are repeated.
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