This is an analysis of the poem From What I'Ve Been Told that begins with:
For someone who floats from ear to ear,
As often as you do and with regularity......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaa XXbbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111110101 1101111010100 1110010110110 111101110110 01101010110010 1011101000110 11010101110101 01101 1111100101101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 211
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 9
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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; you is repeated.
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