This is an analysis of the poem Problems Of A Journalist that begins with:
“I want to get away somewhere and re-read Proust,”
Said an editor of Fortune to a man on Time. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AXXbbbacb AXbcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,5,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 110101111111 1110001000111 101011101010101 1110010111 11010101001 111101010100 1110110101010101 110101011101 01111011100 110101111111 1110001100111 1001011000100 1111010101 01010011011
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 358
- Average number of words per stanza: 64
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, and are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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