This is an analysis of the poem Monet Refuses The Operation that begins with:

Doctor, you say there are no haloes
around the streetlights in Paris...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XabbXcXdbeXdfbgfhafcXchcaebiceeXafegffXgcedcci
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 46,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101111110 01010010 1111011010 11111010 11101101111 0011010011110 01011110010 010101111 01101110010 110111110 11011011010 101001111 101001 0101101 1111001 110101 1001110 00100101001 100101 001010 11110011 010010001 1101001 0101001 1010100101 010111110 1010010110 01110001 0111011010 011010110 0110110 011111110 1111001 111011 11001010 10111101 0111010 010101 11011100 10101 111111 01010 010111 110110001 1110000101 0101110011
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1514
  • Average number of words per stanza: 280
  • Amount of lines: 46
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; and, becomes, water, to are repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines water is repeated).

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