A Plea by Franklin Pierce Adams: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem A Plea that begins with:

Writers of baseball, attention!
When you're again on the job-...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababacXX XdedacXX fXXfaeXX XXXbaXXc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10011010 1101101 10111010 1001011 10111010 1001101 111010010 101001 11101100 11001011 111010111 1001001 10010010 01001011 0111010010 1101001 10011110 1010111 10111110 1101001 110010010 01001011 0110010010 1101001 100101000 10010010 11111000 11101001 10111011 1001111 010010010 101001
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 270
  • Average number of words per stanza: 48
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; that, to are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words when, we are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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