This is an analysis of the poem Not So Patient To Bite My Tongue that begins with:
Fourty-four years ago,
I had been patriotic AND young....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabbcX ddXXac
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101001 110101011 010101001011010100 01010010 11010100 1111 01 111101 11111110101 11010110110 1111100111 10101000010101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 205
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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 is repeated.
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