This is an analysis of the poem Messy Room that begins with:
Whosever room this is should be ashamed!
His underwear is hanging on the lamp....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbcbXcXcXdadAccX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1001001001 0101010101 01101001011 101001011011 010010010 01001101 0111110101010 101101001101 011110010 01101001 01011001001 101011101001 1001001001 101101101 1110111 1101010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 648
- Average number of words per stanza: 125
- Amount of lines: 16
- 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; his, in, or are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word his is repeated.
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