This is an analysis of the poem The Saddest Poem that begins with:
I can write the saddest poem of all tonight.
Write, for instance: "The night is full of stars,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: A bX b AX bc db Ad de dc cd dc bd dX ebb dX bdXcd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,2,1,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,3,2,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111010100101 1110110101 101110001000 011100111 111010100101 1101011111 1110110011 11011011001001 11101110 1111110111 111010100101 011110011110 010011101010 101010011101 110101111010 010101110101 11101111101 1101010 10010111110 111010110101 011110011 11101101110 1110101111110 111010101 11101001110111 010110 01011001001 1110101101110 10111010011 011110110011 1101010 110100111101 101001101110
- Amount of stanzas: 17
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 89
- Average number of words per stanza: 18
- Amount of lines: 33
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, her, loved, to, my, we, same are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, to are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines her is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word her at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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