This is an analysis of the poem Sitting In The Middle Of Situations Disbelieved that begins with:
Sitting in the middle,
Of situations disbelieved, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AXbC aXdcdec FGDHF AXbC cfh FGDHF dcd XhhefgXh cdXfhfb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,7,5,4,3,5,3,8,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100010 010101000 1 1110010 1000010 10010100 0101110 001010 100100010011 0111 010 1100100011010 110100 101001 111010110 01001101101 100010 010101000 1 1110010 110101010 0100010 1011100 1100100011010 110100 101001 111010110 01001101101 0101101010 0100110 010101010100 0101101001 101000100 010010001010100 11 11101010010 010101011 00011101 101100111100 01101010110100 110101010 0101000 0101111010 0100111100 0010010 0101000101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 158
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 46
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
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; and is repeated.
The author used the same word a at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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