This is an analysis of the poem Selecting Which Ones To Fry that begins with:
It has been a long time,
Since I've tested wings to fly....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXbcbc aXdXXcd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic tetrameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 010011 1110101 111101 11111011011 100110 10101101 1111010100110 0110110111 1010 111101 01010101101 0001111111 01100 11011111101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 238
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, i are 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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