This is an analysis of the poem On The Way To The Bottom that begins with:
On the way to the bottom
I met an ole friend of mine...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbXXXcabAdXdXXdXXdbabAbcXXeXe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 29,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010010 1111101 11101101 00010010 11110010 111110101 101101010 1110111 1010010 110101 1110101 101011 101001 1101010 11101 010101110 1101001 111111 1111001 101101010 11101011 1010010 1111101 111001 11111110 111110 1010101 11011010 1011101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 832
- Average number of words per stanza: 176
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; more is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines line', ' are repeated).
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