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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