This is an analysis of the poem Nothing Impresses Me that begins with:

A passenger on the bus says…
nothing impresses me....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aBaacaddeBfbabgbeBbacfheXhBg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 28,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01001011 100101 10101010110 11010011 11101 01101 10111010 1101111 010111 100101 11110111 101011011011 010100101 110100101 110101000110 101000111101 0100111 100101 110111111 0101001 1110111 11001 11 11100101011 11111111 1110 100101 111100100
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 817
  • Average number of words per stanza: 149
  • Amount of lines: 28
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; me, i are repeated.

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

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