This is an analysis of the poem The Dream Of Wearing Shorts Forever that begins with:
To go home and wear shorts forever
in the enormous paddocks, in that warm climate,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abc dXd eXX fXc degX dchg bbbX dXbi cXXjf Xcbkd XlejX fdc faXX eXXac dfb Xicj becdc cfkcc Xdahd Xblhc Xe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,4,4,4,4,5,5,5,3,4,5,3,4,5,5,5,5,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011111010 000101001110 10010110101 011010101 1010100100 0101110 111011110101 010101110 101100 001001001 111111 1110010 11101 1101001110 0100101010 01001010 1001110 1110101011 0101 1101010100 1101 11001010101 10001001110101 1010000111110 1111111010 10101010010 001001 101010100 1100101 1101100011100 11011101 01101 0110110001 110111 101010111011 100101 1111 10100010 110110 110011100111 01010100010 1110100 001110 0100001 1111101110010 1111001 001001 00100101101110 001111011 101011110101110 101010011101 01101011000 11010110 10110100 00010100 011010010100 0101010011011 10110101000010100 11111 11110100 100100010 010111110101 0111011 01001001 1110011101001 00101010110 1101010 11101110111 10100010 1111010101 01001101111 0010101001001 0100110 001011 01100101110 1010011101 1010110101001 0010100000 01110101010 01011 110010101110 101010 0100010
- Amount of stanzas: 21
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 143
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 84
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; tat is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, are, and are repeated.
The author used the same word to at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines tat is repeated).
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