This is an analysis of the poem While Someone Telephones that begins with:
Wasted, wasted minutes that couldn't be worse,
minutes of a barbaric condescension. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcacdbddXaccc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic tetrameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 10101011001 10000101010 11011101011 111101000110 100101111101 1101 110101111111110 1011 101011101 0101011000010 0101 110101 110001001111 11100111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 554
- Average number of words per stanza: 87
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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