This is an analysis of the poem Fashions For Massive Chaos that begins with:

And now ladies and gentlemen...
What you all have been waiting for....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcd Xa ebfefbXX gefdefbhffi ejdfXX iXhjdfhd gbaf dfcfchdi cXaeaXd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,2,8,11,6,8,4,8,7,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11101100 11110101 011011010010 1011010 1010111011 01 1101 1101101 10100101 10001001 01111101 1111 1000101110 110100 10 11101011011 101001 10110010010 1101001011 10101010 100101001 011010001 1010101 1110 111101101 1 10111 1001 11010 1111 10101010 1101 111011 10010 1001011 010100010 011100101 111010 11100111111 100 111110101 110010 1100101 1110 110111010101 0010000011110 010011000100 101001010110 010101100111010010 11010101001001 1101011010101 1111010 10101 010010 101111000 11111001 11110111 111010
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 199
  • Average number of words per stanza: 34
  • Amount of lines: 58
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • 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 is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.

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  • summary of Fashions For Massive Chaos;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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