This is an analysis of the poem Earlier that begins with:
Into the party, with engraved invitations, I am bored when
I realize the champagne in the decrepit bowl is going to get...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXXXXaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0001000110101111 110100100010101001 1101111010100 10110111110011 111111001011111 01110100101010111 1101011011101 11010001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 447
- Average number of words per stanza: 83
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 55 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you is repeated.
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- summary of Earlier;
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- idea of the verse;
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