This is an analysis of the poem Angina Pectoris that begins with:
If half my heart is here, doctor,
the other half is in China...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXaabcaXcdedadbXccebe X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 22,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01110110 01010010 001010 0101010 11001010 1001011111 0101 1100110 101001011001000010 111101111 0101 111010 1110101110 001001110 1110 11 111010010 10010100 11011010100010 11101101 10101111 1111001101 111010110101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 397
- Average number of words per stanza: 67
- Amount of lines: 24
- 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; every, my are repeated.
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