This is an analysis of the poem I Could Not Tell that begins with:
I could not tell I had jumped off that bus,
that bus in motion, with my child in my arms,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXXX XbccbdXX bedbeXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,8,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111111111 11010011011 01101101011110 11101011101 11111001 1110100100011 01111111011 0001011 10010001111 01110110100 0110001010 10111010 1001 111010 011101010 11111111110 1101 1010100 1001101 001011001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 248
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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, had, bus, my, have, her, life 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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