This is an analysis of the poem Statement With Rhymes that begins with:

Plurality is all. I walk among the restaurants,
the theatres, the grocery stores; I ride the cars ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXXaXbXXbaXcXbbc daeed
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 17,5,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 01000111010101 0100010011101 1101010111000 1010100101001 1001010111 100110010111 0100010101 010101010101011 1001011000 10010010001 0101010101 01111101 01011010100001 010001010101 01110111011101 11011101000101 01010101010111010010101 01000111011101 1111111100111 01011011011010101 0011111101111 01110101011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 581
  • Average number of words per stanza: 97
  • Amount of lines: 23
  • Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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; of, in are repeated.

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

    The author used the same word plurality at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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