This is an analysis of the poem The Wrong Address that begins with:
I apologize.
But you have caught me, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xabcad eX eFedg X Xhibcac fXXhXigcfc Fhdbehh FXXh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,2,5,1,7,10,7,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101 11111 10110101 1 1111111 11101 1110110 11101111 10 110111 111010110 110001 011100 11 110 1001 10110010 1101111 11101 110001 0110101 110101 10110 0111101 10111001011 11010010 01110010 111010101 1011101 011010010 11011001 110111 01011001 10101011001 00010101111 01100111000 11011101010 010 110111 110111010100 0111010 111010010
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 142
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; pity, to, i are repeated.
The author used the same word you at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same words show, it at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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