This is an analysis of the poem On First Looking Into Bee Palmer's Shoulders that begins with:

WITH BOWS TO KEATS AND KEITH'S
["The World's Most Famous Shoulders"]...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XX ababaXX abbaXbbXXbbbbbb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,7,15,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 010111 11110100 1111110001 1011010001 1110110101 11100101101 1111000101 1001010100 1001011001101110100101001010101011000110100100100111001001010110111000100100010011011101010011010111100100100100110100101101111101010010110101010000100010110111111100100111010101001110 1111000101 1101011101 1011011111 1101110101 1101110101 1111110101 1101001101 111000101000 1111110001 1011010001 1111010101 1100010111 11110101 0111011100
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 412
  • Average number of words per stanza: 74
  • Amount of lines: 25
  • Average number of symbols per line: 65 (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; of, its, and, in, life, i are repeated.

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