This is an analysis of the poem The Poet At Seventeen that begins with:
My youth? I hear it mostly in the long, volleying
Echoes of billiards in the pool hall where ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXab cXaX bdcX Xaca cXcX ebfX Xcbb dbbe defe gggg XeXcXbgab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111010001100 1001000111 110111000010 110011011110 1101010101 10111110111 10111010101 11110001010 10011100101 11111101101 111001011011 11011111010 1101111111 0101010101110 11011001010101 011111011100 11011101011 1101001111010 010101010010 0011110101110 11010111101 01010110001 10011001101 10101110110 11110111011 11010110110 1101110101 0111111000100 10110101101 11010101110 1011001101011 01111101011 101110101 111111100011 01011010010100 111110101 011101011010 101001110010010 110111011010 101111011010 01101010010100 1101011011001 110111110100 10010001111 1101110001 10101001110110 01111101010 111100110111
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 198
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; they, of, who, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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