This is an analysis of the poem You Operate that begins with:
You operate on the afternoon
You perform open heart surgery...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbX bXa ccX cbXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,3,3,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic trimeter or irregular meter
- Metre: 110110101 101101100 101 0110101 101110 01111 001 111111 11111 01101 000101110 010 01011 11
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 76
- Average number of words per stanza: 14
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 21 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word you is repeated.
The author used the same word you at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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