This is an analysis of the poem Turning The Heat To Hotter that begins with:
Nobody came to party knew somebody who sat,
In a corner to sigh....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABC ABC BXDXXX XXDX aC BXDXXXEXEXEX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,6,4,2,12,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111010111011 001001 010101010 1111010111011 001001 010101010 10101110101 1110 0111 1110 1101010 1110 10101011011 1110 0111 1110 11110010111011 010101010 10101110101 1110 0111 1110 1101010 1110 1001010 1110 1001010 1110 1001010 1110
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 152
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; to, party, high are repeated.
The author used the same words nobody, everybody at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same words party, ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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