This is an analysis of the poem Underwear that begins with:
I didn’t get much sleep last night
thinking about underwear ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcaadXebbebfbgbadhafhihjedkXhdljfbadjeaXkXmhcmmf ibeeiajilbbfnahmijXjjdbalgninamhina
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 49,35,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111111 1001101 111010010 1010001 11101000 1101011 101010111010 1011 110101 101001101 1010 1101 01110111 01000010101101 11111010 11111101 11001 10111011001 1110101111110 10111100 10101111 1101111 101011 111011010 1010111011 111011010 010010 0101000101 0111 100110010 1001 0111011010 110111001 011111 010000101 10101 10101101001 101010110 1110101 0101100 101001 10101 101111011 011010101010 01110010 001010 0101010 010011010 11101101 101111110 10100101 10100010 1111100 1110110110 111 1010110010 1010101010 1011100011010 111010101 101011 1 1110 1000011100 110111010 110010101001 11011100 010101 00101001 110100101001 010111101 11011010101 1111000101 10011 111111 11100111010 1010 1100100 101 110100 11111010 101001110 11111110 11
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 838
- Average number of words per stanza: 146
- Amount of lines: 83
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; underwear, you, washing, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words even, the, he, did, underwear, and are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines underwear, girdle are repeated).
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