This is an analysis of the poem I'M Not Surprised By That At All that begins with:
It is not unusual to find,
Those accustomed to making decisions......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdceXbf adgffXafc gX eha bbbX ec bX edXeb XfXbcbcbX X chcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,2,3,4,2,2,5,9,1,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 001010001 1010010010 001111 1100100010100 001 00101001 00011101 1100010 1101001101 010101 10100001110 1011011110111 111101110 11000001000 0101101101001 1101011101 110110101111 1101001001000 1111010 01111 1 111 111 11101101110101 10101110111 1011011101001 11110011 111 111000101010 1111010101010 1111 1 110 110 11110111001 1111 1 11111101 011110 111011111 001000100111010 0101 1110110101 111001011 11011111 1110111110 110010 01011111 100111001010101 111101110010011
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 151
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 50
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, you, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
The author used the same word it at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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