This is an analysis of the poem Optimistic Man that begins with:
as a child he never plucked the wings off flies
he didn't tie tin cans to cats' tails...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaaXbXbXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10111010111 110111011 11100110 1111 111 11110101 111011111 1111010 0101101 011000101101 0101000100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 335
- Average number of words per stanza: 67
- Amount of lines: 11
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; he is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words or, about are repeated.
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