This is an analysis of the poem Waste Paper: A Poem Of Profound Insignificance that begins with:

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  • Rhyme scheme: a bccbbbbbbXdXefgfheiibXjjjkklmX XhXXffggaanfllXdaibeeggXmhodXddXmkX kXbefXXbddbenXffhhXmaajnnniiicXigokX iimmehhhiiXfmbbaajggbbfdkXkppggbihX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,30,35,36,35,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 10010010001 0101011101 0101000101 1101000101 11001111111 1101010101 1111011111 110101010111 11011100001 0010010110111 0010101111111010 11010111 11011010011111 10110101011 11101001101 110101110101 11111101111 000100100101 1101100101 101011 101001101 0110010111001 10101011111 1101110101 1101110101 1111001001 111110110011 10110010 11100100101010 1 1010100010 101001011011 101000011010 01010101 10100100101 111110101 1011111 1110011 00010011101101 01111010010001011 1010010110111 101010011 110101110 11111110 1111 1 10011101 11010101 110111011100 0101001010 110100110 1101 1011 111010101 1011011010 1101000101 1101111011 010101010001 101001000100011 11101111 10110011 101111 101111010 1001001010 1 0010000100010 0100101001 011 110110111001001001 1001101010 10101100 11101 11 001010101110101 0101111100 111010011 11010011 01010001110101 11100101010111 11000111111001 1101110111101 1100100111 0111101 1111010110 110111010 001001101 101101101 0100011 110101 101 101011101 100101 0011 111 0001 11 011111 11111101 01001 1101011100011 1 01111101 01011101 110111010 010101010 101010100 11111010011 11011101 11011101 11011111 101111101 1111011000 0111111 111010011110 1110101001 1111111 101101 10011111 101 01010101 111100101 11010101 01010101 00010 110 101111 110101110101 01110101010 001101101 1010101 1010111 11011111 11010101 11111101 1111 0010
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 986
  • Average number of words per stanza: 185
  • Amount of lines: 137
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; of, and, in, from, to, fat are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the are repeated.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases always, smoking connect the lines.

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