This is an analysis of the poem Urban Turtles that begins with:
Small green couch in the living room. I come home at night and sit in it.
'Law & Order' is on TV. I have a glass of cheap cabernet and make eggs ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbb dcXa XXeX dfaX XfeXffXXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11100101111111100 110011010110101101111 1100110110110110110 00111001011111110 1101111 1101101101111010 110101110110001011010 11011110011110111110010 1110011011 01111010011111010 110001110011001111 011010010 11011010101 10111011011110111010 101010011110011111010100111011101010101 11111110101011000 010110100111 1010010101101010010 01101011100100111011 1 11101010110010111011 1011110101110010101101 1110111011101111101 1111101111001100 1101110010001111100 001101100110101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 350
- Average number of words per stanza: 67
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 66 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 13
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, i, in, want, he are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines me is repeated).
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