This is an analysis of the poem I Must Have Said Something Wrong? that begins with:
What you're saying to me makes no sense at all.
My utility company hired your telehone center, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbca cXddefa cXfXfe XbXX ggX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,7,6,4,3,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11100111111 1010010010110010 01110011 11110110011010 100110101110101 1010111101010 111101100 10111011 1111011 111111 0110111010111 010100100011 1 11111011 0100101 110111101011 010001 1010010010010101 1 011110100101 1111010110 111011 01 01 1111101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 178
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
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 poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word hello is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines coast, hello are repeated).
The poet repeated the same word bill at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase hello connects the lines.
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