This is an analysis of the poem One Wants A Teller In A Time Like This that begins with:

One wants a teller in a time like this
One's not a man, one's not a woman grown...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: X aa bbcc dd beeabe
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,2,4,2,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: rondeau
  • Metre: 1101000110 1101110101 0101010101 1101010101 110101 1011110111 11001101 1011001111 110101 11110111101 1111010111 0101110111 1101010101 01 1111011100
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 116
  • Average number of words per stanza: 22
  • Amount of lines: 15
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; one is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word one is repeated.

    The author used the same word one at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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

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  • history of its creation;
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