This is an analysis of the poem All About You that begins with:
In the Grandville greyhound station in the lightly drizzlin' rain
Sittin' on my suitcase goin' quietly insane all about you babe all about you...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abBcc bBaX Dee DabXba
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,3,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 001011100010101 1011111010001101111011 10111111010101111 1100101011111 1110111010111 101111011 10111111010101111 0111111100110011101 11101101110101 10111 0111010111111111111 10111101010101 10111 0110101110 1101111111101 1111110101 10111011011 1011111011110101110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 250
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 55 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, all, about, in, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word all is repeated.
The author used the same word all at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of All About You;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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