This is an analysis of the poem I'M Going To Start Living Like A Mystic that begins with:
Today I am pulling on a green wool sweater
and walking across the park in a dusky snowfall. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ab XX cX da bX cd Xc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
- Metre: 011110101110 1100101001010 0111101010001 10100010010100 11011001110 1010001011000 1001011110001 10100101010010 101101001010 110001110100010 11011000111 10111001000010 10110100101 00100110100100
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 97
- Average number of words per stanza: 18
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, of are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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