This is an analysis of the poem And We Shall Not Get Excited that begins with:
And we shall not get excited. Because a translator
May not get excited. Calmly, we shall pass on...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXbbXa Xcb ddca dcd X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,3,4,3,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111010010010 111010101111 10101011 01011 10010101101 010001101 00111010110001001010 110100111011 111 1110110011111101010 1111010 11110111010 110110111 01110 1111111101 01010101010111 1010 01000101100110010
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 147
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; we, in are repeated.
The author used the same word we at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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