This is an analysis of the poem Last Words that begins with:
If the shoe fell from the other foot
who would hear? If the door ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdeecfghijeghebXhfhhdkaaiXckleegejageXhmggfiehgcXaflaineXhhXkkbckambhjlhefnf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 78,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 001100101 111001 10100110 10111011 1001011 0101110010 110100110 011100101 0111101 110101 11111011110 0101011 1100111001 1100010110 11011101 0111101 011100101 11101110 11110101 111111110 101011 111111110 11111101 0111101010 10100100100 101110011 0010000100 11101001 010010110 01111101 11011000 010100110 101101110 001011100 11110100 10010111 110100011 110111 00111011 01101100101 0111001 00111110 1111011110 1111001 01011010 10010110 0011111 0101110 111100010 11101011 11111010 010111101 011111010 100100111 1101110011 10111010 1110101 11110 0010010101 10111101 0101101 1101111 11111110 001011011 110011001 101101 1101110 0111011 1110110 000100010101 1101011 001001111 10110101 0111011 10001101010 00111110 110010010 0111101010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2718
- Average number of words per stanza: 521
- Amount of lines: 78
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; if, i, and, my, of, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, of are repeated.
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