This is an analysis of the poem To The Pay Toilet that begins with:
You strop my anger, especially
when I find you in restaurant or bar...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXcdcXbacbbcdXXbcXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111100100 1111010111 111011010110 011011111110 1100100011110 1011010011 101011100 10100011001001 0101000100110 111100010100 10101110011 110101101001 110011110100 10100001010 11011011101 11010011110 100100101 10101010100100110 1111101 11001101010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 865
- Average number of words per stanza: 159
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of, wait are repeated.
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