This is an analysis of the poem I Sing The Body Electric that begins with:
People sit numbly at the counter
waiting for breakfast or service. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcadefgfdXaedhXijieddafXbaibXcdhciXkgXkelcddbgjlaadged
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 55,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101101010 10110110 010100100 11101010 01101010 11101001 11001110 010111100 10101010 11000101 1110011 110110110 11101011 1000111 1101100100 0101011010 0010100010 1111001 000110101 111111 11000101 10110110 1110111110 11101110 011011100 0101101 0110111010 01101010 110111 1101011 011111 01010001100 0011001010 1100101 111011 10111011 1101111 011010101 01111111 100011011 01110100101 011111110 1010111 0100011100 010001010 00100100 00010011 10101101 100010010 01001010 010110010 011010001 01010111 101001011 11001011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1867
- Average number of words per stanza: 345
- Amount of lines: 55
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, between, of are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines winter is repeated).
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