This is an analysis of the poem Speech Comes After Swallowing that begins with:
after many afternoons on my knees
i pinned him down to lychee ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXbbc XdeXXcec bdXc XXa aXdXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,8,4,3,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010101111 111101 001010100 110000101 1101011 101010101 101110101 011100010 1010100011 110101000 10001000 101101100 1001101010 1101111 101101001 10011110 0101101 10101010 100100101 0100101 101010 10101101101 101101110 101110 0100
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 168
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; twisting, turning are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word does is repeated.
The author used the same word does 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 turning is repeated).
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