This is an analysis of the poem A Week Later that begins with:
A week later, I said to a friend: I don't
think I could ever write about it....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabXXXcdefgcbgXabXgehfhafhXicgaidi Xf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 34,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01101100111 111101010 1000111110 1010011011 001010010110 110101011011 1111011001110 11101 110111111111 100111111 1101010111 11011101011100 11001010 001100010011 10111010010 10100101010 1011001010 101010100 10001010010 110001101 01010111 0101111 1110101 110101101010 00111110001 11111111101 1010001101 000101110 1001010110 111111011 00111111001 0111011110 1001101 11000110 0100010
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 702
- Average number of words per stanza: 136
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, and, folded, in, me, her are repeated.
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