This is an analysis of the poem Things I Didn'T Know I Loved that begins with:

it's 1962 March 28th
I'm sitting by the window on the Prague-Berlin train ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: Xabcade fcfX ghXijiklili ilXmheahXcmXhniXnd heXXmjcnXadclicieiiecXeiaXXfaiha hkke jXcXhcckcghej hek akhiiXX hgj Xic aiXebaciok cdajXaa Xo X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,4,11,18,32,4,13,3,7,3,3,10,7,2,1,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0111 0101010101011 1010 110111 101010101101011 111 0101100101 11011101 11111010110 110101 0101100101 111110101 1010010111001 101011010 1101111110111 1111100110101 1101001111101 11111010101111011101 1101101001 10101101 1110101010101 1001101 11011101 1011 011111010111000 010101011001110010 1110 100111001 011101101 1101111 110111010000 1101101010110 101100110110 110010 1011 11101 101011 111010110 001010111101010100 001111 1101111 100111 10010111001100010 100 10010000100010 010101011 01111111011 1110110100011 10111011011011000 11101 0101111011010010111 110111111101 11001101 1010110101000111 1001 010101001 1010101010 101101111111 1000111 100101011001101 011011011010011 0010101001 1101000101 111011111 101011110 1010010 001010010010111100 110101 11101 11101101 11011110 11111010010 1101001 1101 1001100001 110010111 1111010101 001110 01111101110 1101110 01110110001 1110110010010010111 00111110000111101 1100111110100 1101001000110 1110111010 11110010011 1001110101111111 110111010 11001011 1101101101101 1101111 11011101 1011010111 01011001101110 11100101011 11011101 0101010 111 1101111 1001011010 101111011011 110100110011001 11 110 1101111 1001101111001011 111101001110101 111101010110111 11101100010111010 1010101011 00011111101 101111 000101101001111011 01111101 0110110111 1101110111 110010 1101111 1101111101111010110 0101101010101011 10011011010100101 1101 11 111010110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 14
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 393
  • Average number of words per stanza: 67
  • Amount of lines: 127
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, know, and, to, snow are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, the, maybe, and, whether, are repeated.

    The author used the same word i 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 is repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase connects the lines.

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