This is an analysis of the poem I Thought You'D Be Glad To See Me? that begins with:
I am totally baffled,
By your appearance....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABC DEF ede ghiggX XXa ABC DEFc ejkga akdeXdaiX haXdca Xcak bjXc aX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,6,3,3,4,5,9,6,4,4,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110010 11010 11111 1001111 10001 0111110100 011110111 101011101 1110101 111110010 1110011 101011100 10101110 10100011 1101011100 11101001001111 1110101 011111011010 1110010 11010 11111 1001111 10001 0111110100 111111 11010110101 011011 1011010101010 1101001010 0111001 10101011 00101 1110101 11111101 1110101110 0101 11101010001 00010 1001 10111 001011101 1110010110 10111110101 1111001 1100 1000 111111 101 11010 010011101 101101 10101 0101011 10101 1111010111
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 127
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 55
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
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; i, you, your are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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