This is an analysis of the poem Alan Dugan Telling Me I Have A Problem With Time that begins with:
He reads my latest attempt at a poem
and is silent for a long time, until it feels...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXcdbefbXacXebXgdaXhffigjedbifgdbbdXXjhXcd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 43,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110011010 101010110101 1111101010 110100011001110 10110111 1010101011 0110101010 111100101001 101101011 101000101 111101001 10110101 11001101 0101001 10111 1110101101 11111111101 010000101101 101111001010 10110111010010 0010011100 010101100 00100101011 11001010101 10110111 010110100101 00111111011010 11100101001 010100010101 1110001010101 110110110 1010010111101 0110101 110010110100 010100111 0101110110 101001011 11011101 1111100101011 01 100111001010 11101111 010111100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1677
- Average number of words per stanza: 310
- Amount of lines: 43
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- 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; it is repeated.
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