This is an analysis of the poem Remember I Mentioned Of Hearing Of Rumors that begins with:

Why is it more are feeling uncomfortably misfit?
And being squeezed between credits and deficits....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcabXbdae fX bg afXX aXdg XgXcdXXhebhd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,2,2,4,4,12,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1001110010011 110101101100 110010010010100 1010101 11010001000 101101010 110101110100 110111011 1101100100100100 010001110101011 111111010 101101011 1 110111111 1110101 111011 110 111101 01101 1 111 111111 1 11 11001111101 0001010010100 010110010010 111 1 1101110001 111100110 1010100111001 0110011010001 101111101101
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 193
  • Average number of words per stanza: 35
  • Amount of lines: 34
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, to, i, of are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.

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