This is an analysis of the poem Everybody Tells Me Everything that begins with:

I find it very difficult to enthuse
Over the current news. ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11010100001 100101 11111110110111011110010 110111110101111001101110101011111000110
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 310
  • Average number of words per stanza: 63
  • Amount of lines: 4
  • Average number of symbols per line: 77 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 16
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; so, it, that are repeated.

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