This is an analysis of the poem You Will Have To Manifest More Than A Passing Interest that begins with:

It's been quite sometime since I've breast fed.
Or had my running mucoused nose wiped....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbc defghaagae iXjciX cXfibgacXkl X gajlXhbg Xfldb Xbbbehkglba
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,10,6,11,1,8,5,11,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 001111111 1111010011 1111101001011 00101111101 11010111 1100011001010 101010110111 110110010101110 11011 1101000010101 1101011101 111101111010 1110111 01000 110 11111011010 110101 101100100110101 1000100010 111100100111010 01 101010011011 10111111101 1101001011 111111010000101 101100110110100110 110100101 101101011 111101011100111 101 011101011 111101010111 10100100110010 1110100111111 110011 1110100010101000 0101110010 00111011 011011111 100100100111 110110001100100 1101 0100101100 11111010101 11001 11001010100 10 101111 101010111010100 1110 100110101001 111111 01010111010 111111011 10111001 1011001101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 277
  • Average number of words per stanza: 50
  • Amount of lines: 56
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; had, and, to, i, have, you are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word or is repeated.

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  • summary of You Will Have To Manifest More Than A Passing Interest;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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