This is an analysis of the poem Take The I Out that begins with:
But I love the I, steel I-beam
that my father sold. They poured the pig iron...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXcdaefXdcaXgeXfcbXddbdfXXbbg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 30,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101111 11101110110 0001101110 010100011010 100101001111 1000111011 01010101 00100010111110 0010110010 11000101101 101010011 11101010 101110111 0101011010111110 110110001 100111001 111101110 00101111010 10010001011 0100111001 010101001 1111 100010011 01000101101 1010001011111 11101101 10101010110 10011001001 100100101 1101111010010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1226
- Average number of words per stanza: 242
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines i is repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase i connects the lines.
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