This is an analysis of the poem Walking Around that begins with:
It so happens I am sick of being a man.
And it happens that I walk into tailorshops and movie...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Abcdc ecfcc cXA ebXdgX hXXi bXcg jafXd dcXka cdXckfc cjheaXj Xi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,3,6,4,4,5,5,7,7,2,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011011101001 101011100100110 10 11101101101 1011001001110 010100111001 1 01011100111111 010111001111110 111110011010 01101111011111 1111111 011011101001 1010100 010101100110 1101001101 0101 011010011 10110111001 1110111001001 1001110001 101100011001 100110101001 11111100 111011101101 011001011010 1101001 1111101110 011011011101 10110110101 111101110010 1 101010010100011 10 0011010111010 0010111100 110110011001 11101011100010 101001010111 1111101000100 1110 1101101110 1101010111010100 1 1101010001111 11010101 111101101011010 1 11101010001 1011011011 101110 0101101
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 209
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 54
- 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; no, my, and, into are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, i, and, into 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.
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