My Generation Reading The Newspapers by Kenneth Patchen: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem My Generation Reading The Newspapers that begins with:

We must be slow and delicate; return
the policeman's stare with some esteem, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbcdXadefXgbcfged
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1101110001 001010101 0100010111 01111001 0101010101 11111111 011101010001 111100111 110111000101 11001011100 0101000111 01011100101 01001011001 11010100101 100001110000 0101010101 111010101001 1111010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 774
  • Average number of words per stanza: 145
  • Amount of lines: 18
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; this is repeated.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase this connects the lines.

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  • summary of My Generation Reading The Newspapers;
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