This is an analysis of the poem When Your Pants Begin To Go that begins with:
When you wear a cloudy collar and a shirt that isn't white,
And you cannot sleep for thinking how you'll reach to-morrow night, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcc ddccbb eeffgg XXaagg aahhee aaeXgg aaiigg Xaaccgg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,7,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 111010101011001 111011101110101 110010101110101 111010000010001 111011101010111 101011101010101 111010101010001 101111100010101 101011111111101 111010101011101 101110101111101 001000101010001 111010100110111 111010101010111 111010101110101 011011101010001 101010100010111 101110101110101 011111101010101 101111101110110 101110101110111 111010101110101 111110101111101 101110101010101 100110101010111 001010101110111 101010101010101 101100101110101 101000101010101 111010100010101 111001100011111 111011100010001 101111101110101 1011101011111110 111011101010101 111010101110101 101100101111111 111011101111111 110110101010011 111010101010101 111010101011111 111010101110101 101000100010101 101110100011101 100010101010101 101110101010101 111110101111101 001010101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 342
- Average number of words per stanza: 65
- Amount of lines: 49
- Average number of symbols per line: 62 (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; and, you, that, his, of, to, your, he'll are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, some are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word go at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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