This is an analysis of the poem Piazza Piece that begins with:
-- I am a gentleman in a dustcoat trying
To make you hear. Your ears are soft and small...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbbaaccA AddeeA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 110100001010 0111111111 1100111111 11011100110 11010111010 1101010001 1111110101 110100001010 11010101010 0111111111 1111010100 1111111001 1011010111 11010101010
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 292
- Average number of words per stanza: 59
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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