This is an analysis of the poem Cairo Jag that begins with:
Shall I get drunk or cut myself a piece of cake,
a pasty Syrian with a few words of English... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbcdbac XbdbcXXcbeXXbfXfcebcbfe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,23,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111110101 0101000011010 1011110010110 0100110101010101 110101001110 11101011010 100101110011 1011001010 11101100001 10101010101 110111010010 1110101011 01001010110010 1001101101 11100100101 1010010111 0100010001010 01101011100 100101000101 00101011 00100011010 001111111 110110011011 010100010 1111011100 010101110110 1111100111010 01011111010 1000101011 1010010101010100
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 452
- Average number of words per stanza: 79
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; or, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word with is repeated.
The author used the same word but at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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