This is an analysis of the poem Totally. Totally. Totally Bummed that begins with:
Totally. Totally. Totally bummed.
Totally. Totally. Totally bummed....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AA XbcX bXca ADAA XAXAbcccXADAADA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,4,4,4,15,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001001001 1001001001 01000100 10101 11100010 110101 1111010 11000111 010001100 11001 11001001001 101110 10111 1001001001 11101 10111 1010111 10111 10111 11111 1111010 1110001 11001001001 101110 10111 1001001001 101110 10111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 124
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; totally, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words totally, and are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines bummed is repeated).
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