This is an analysis of the poem The Value Of A Telephone that begins with:
LAST night we had a hurry call to go to daughter May,
Her husband said that Ma and me were wanted right away,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcX ddbbdd eeccXX ddaXff ccggee hhiijj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11110101010101 01011111010101 11101101110111 11010111110101 11100101100101 11011110110111 1111101111111 11010101100101 11000111111101 111101101111111 01110001111101 111111010011101 11010101110101 101010101111101 110101011100101 11111100110101 1011110011110101 111101011101101 11111101111111 11010101010101 11110111011101 11010101111111 110111011010101 11010111010111 10010101010111 11010101011111 10110111111111 11110011110111 11100101010101 111010101011011 111011011101010 110101011101010 11010111110101 11110101110101 1101011110111 11011101111101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 355
- Average number of words per stanza: 72
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 58 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; an', jim, i, telephoned, to, get, your are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words an', i are repeated.
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