This is an analysis of the poem Has My Delivery Come To You Too Easy? that begins with:

You dropped me.
Too many times stopped me, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabBCADbC EcEcbfgXfc eehhhe Ceee Cdddee BCADbCag Xede
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,10,6,4,6,8,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111 110111 10 110111 010101 1001101 001011 1 011 11111 101 11111 101 101101 1100110 1111010 01010110 001010010 101111 00110010001 111111 110 011 1111 1101111 11001110 010111 111100 11101 11001110 0101011 110 10 11101101 111001101 110111 010101 1001101 001011 1 011 01 1111010010 110100101110 1111010010 11110101 0111010
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 164
  • Average number of words per stanza: 30
  • Amount of lines: 47
  • Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 4
  • 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; to is repeated.

    The author used the same word you at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines me is repeated).

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  • summary of Has My Delivery Come To You Too Easy?;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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