This is an analysis of The Man Who Broke Up The Dinner Party Answers by Eric Torgersen.

It made me feel small, like a husband,
and I never married, never owned…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aa Xa bb XX XX XcXca
  • Stanza lengths: 2,2,2,2,2,5,
  • Metre: 011111010 111010101 0101101010 11001011 00111111 1100110010 111010111 1100101110 011001101 01101001110 111011011100 0100100101 1100101001010 110001100101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 7
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

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