This is an analysis of the poem The Secretary Chant that begins with:
My hips are a desk,
From my ears hang ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXbXacadedcbXdfcXeXfXXcf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 25,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101 0111 10101 101111 11110 10011 11110 11 1100101011 110011 11110 1110 101101 10110 110 110000110 01110101 10100100 110100010 0010 1001 1110100 0111 1 010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 537
- Average number of words per stanza: 96
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 21 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word my is repeated.
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