This is an analysis of the poem Dynamiter that begins with:

I sat with a dynamiter at supper in a German saloon eating steak and onions.
And he laughed and told stories of his wife and children and the...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXaaXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11001000110001001101110 111111000111010101010101 01100101001101000111101 10111010111001001101111011 0110101101110000101110010111101101 100111010111001111101000 1011101011010010100100100111010101100111110110
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 781
  • Average number of words per stanza: 152
  • Amount of lines: 7
  • Average number of symbols per line: 111 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 22
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of are repeated.

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