This is an analysis of the poem The Whole Mess... Almost that begins with:
I ran up six flights of stairs
to my small furnished room...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbcd eXXcXXXfXghXX gbdXhahfX XgcXefXXhcXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,13,9,12,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111101 011101 10010 101101 11101001 101110101 111101011 111110011 1111001000010 111101010011 1110111011000 101111011 11011111 11111010 11111100 1110010 1011101 11010110 010110 11100010 1101110101 11010101 11010010 101000111 101101010 11111 110111011 111111 10010 11110011 0101100111 10010101 11101 110101110 10110110111 110010110 11111 1111010101 10100010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 338
- Average number of words per stanza: 67
- Amount of lines: 39
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; all, ', i, her are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words went, 'i'm 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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- summary of The Whole Mess... Almost;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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