This is an analysis of the poem Your Messages To Me Are Mixed that begins with:
Let's pretend...
That during the many years, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbcdcXee aafXXcXcc XaeaX aXX XX fb gX gXad
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,5,3,2,2,2,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101 1100100 11101100100 1110101 100100101 1110101001 1111010 10101101 10011110111 1101 0110111101 1110101101 10101110100 111101001 11111111 0100111 11110111 1011101 1 111001 1110100010 111 11110 1111 1101001010 111110111 1 100111101 10000110101 1101101010100 1111 110001110 1101 1110010010 101101 11
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 134
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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, you, i, have are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase you connects the lines.
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- summary of Your Messages To Me Are Mixed;
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More information about poems by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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