This is an analysis of the poem And So...That's The Way It Is that begins with:
Hi.
I haven't see you around these parts, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcddX ceXdfeX dd eeegb Xafd eaca eabad dX Xebe X bXegHcc adX b aHX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,7,2,5,4,4,5,2,4,1,7,3,1,3,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 1 110110111 01010 111110101 0101011 10101111010 11 1 100111 111110001 11001110100110 1101010001 011 110110110101 1010101011010101 1101 10110110010011 011101001 11111 101010101 11001101011 11010111010 01110111 101011011 101010 1110111011 0100101 10111001010 11010 0110101110001 1101111100 011111010 110001 11101001 0101011 010101010 011101 10100111010 1111101111 110111101111 1110010 1001010 101000 10110101 11 10100 01011111 10101111 011110 101111 1100101100 11 11 101001
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 123
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 54
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, to, that are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
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