This is an analysis of the poem First He Looked Confused that begins with:
I could not lie anymore so I started to call my dog 'God.'
First he looked ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaX ba ba XbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,2,2,3,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111101111001111 111 01 1110101110 1 1110111010 1 1110000 111 10
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 54
- Average number of words per stanza: 11
- Amount of lines: 10
- Average number of symbols per line: 21 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; he is 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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