This is an analysis of the poem Some Tit-Bits Of My Life In Captivity that begins with:

Bathing
Day after day I don't take a bath....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcbbd aedfghhaiff ajkdljckmil nfinXc hmemgXmXjmboo aeeeXmhecmh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,11,11,6,13,11,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10 110111101 1111011010110 11111101 111101001 110100100101101 100 011 101 01011 01010 0101011 111100 0110010110 1111100 11110101 010111 10 01111101 1100010100 01010011 01101101 01101 101110100 11110001100 1101010 001111 10000111 100010011 01000100100101 11100110011 1001111011 1110111 1111011100100 10 01101000100 101001011 11101100010 001100111 0100011101 0110101101010 11010101100 1010001 0110110 0001011 111111001 111001110100 10 100010 11011 001001100 101001000 00100 010001010 0111100 1101010 0010010100 010001000100
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 290
  • Average number of words per stanza: 55
  • Amount of lines: 58
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; i, if are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words if, the are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines bath is repeated).

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  • summary of Some Tit-Bits Of My Life In Captivity;
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