This is an analysis of the poem Talking To Patrizia that begins with:

Patrizia doesn't want to
Talk about love she...

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcdeb cfXgeh iihacj kgcblc eXmebc kccanX imndok kmdXbc bbfaoj gagffp dlbncq hoooei ccbhcn ccaghp cocfbc kibpcm bccbcm ahpcqh banqXa hkiaeX cgmmmX qmXnngXgqdbcg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,13,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1001010 10111 111 101 1111 0101110001 001000 001101 1100 10 11110 01111 1111 011111 10001 11001 11100 111100101 11111000 110 00111101 110001011110111 100101100 10111101 100 011001101 1111001 110110 11110101111 11110101101 1111010 0111010011 11001 1001010011 11011010 101101100 110101010 11111 1011100010 101011 111101 0111110 011001110 11110001 0110111 00101100 110101001 110111101 11111 1111 010111101 0101010 1110011 11110 11101101 01001 111110 1111010111 11101111101 111000100 1011101 001000 1011100 0111010 00100111 1010 11111011 1010111011111 111111 1111 1101 0010 11111 111 1010101 0101 0011101 010101010010 0101111 110111111 1111001 10011101101 111001011 00111001110111 0111011 111011 10111101 001011010 0100101001 111001001 11101110010 100110100 10010111 11111111011 010011 111111001 101010111 11001111110 0000101 011111 1101 0110011 01011100001 101111001 10101111 10010110001 000100111110 010111111100101 11100101 101011 101001 1011110010 101110010 1101011 1100111 1100110 11100010 10101111 01110100 11111100 1011111 1011010 100101111 0111001 011100111 111011 101010010 01000111 0101010 0111101001 101111001 1100111110 01010010 111110 1110101 10001111001 11111101 01100101
  • Amount of stanzas: 23
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 177
  • Average number of words per stanza: 36
  • Amount of lines: 138
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; it, i, her, she, you, in, know, can't, there, to, this, again are repeated.

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

    The author used the same word this at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines always, her, there, out, said, again are repeated).

    The poet repeated the same words out, said at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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