This is an analysis of the poem Strutting All Your Stuff On Main Street that begins with:
On that avenue where your heartbreak is chased,
I follow you with wishes, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AXbcbABA dXXaBA bXXa XbaaX AeecbABAba BdXdbaXBA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,4,5,10,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101111101 1101010 111011001 101 11111 10111111 11011 10111111 10111100101 10101010111 111 111001111 11111 10111111 11110111 111010101 1000100110 1011010 01011011 1111001 111101 11111 100110 11101111101 1101010001 111010111 0100101101 1111 10111111 11111 10111111 11101011 110111111 11011 110111 01101 111101 11010010111 111 11011 10111111
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 190
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 41
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- 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; you, to, that are repeated.
The author used the same word i'd at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word street at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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