This is an analysis of the poem The Shark's Parlor that begins with:
Memory: I can take my head and strike it on a wall on Cumberland Island
Where the night tide came crawling under the stairs came up the first ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbcdeXefacccgfXgghcbbihjagbXbkf ckalaadabXgd dhikghabeacilahkiccXdlaalkefcabXlXdgaXXjXh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 32,12,42,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10011111110101110010 101111010011101 1111101011111 00111001110011100 100111011111110101 1101111100110101 00100101111110010 00101101111001 1101000111010110 011100010110110011 0110111100111110 1111101001110010 11111100101000110 1001100110000101001 101110011110001010 11010110010011010101 10100110110111101 11001100110101011 10110111111001 1111110101111010010 00111001101101111 11011011110111 001010101101101 11001010111011 110110100110100 011011101101001011 101011111111001 1011110001001111101 111101111110011 1010101001001010011 01001110001010010110 101101011111110 110011010101110 0111110011000101101 11101111011101110 1101110100110010 110110101010001110 11101000000101110111 10110101101010011 101010010111111 11101010011011000 010010100010010011 10110110010101111 1010101001111110101 10100100101110101 101100110110111 1011001111110101 10000101011011010 0101110001010101 00010110101011 1110010101011110011 0110100101101001 0101011010010101 11011101101101111 10000101010110010 010010010101101011 10110110111 10101110100101110 111111011101111 011011010101111001 101001011100101101 01101011100110 0101010101101110 1011010010001101 10111101101110111 011101100111010 01111110100101 01111111101011 1001001011110010010 10101011011101001010 011101110010010101 011010111101010110 011101101101101110 0101001101101011011 1111111110111 111011010111111101 11111110011001101 010111010111011 1011011011111001 110111101101111111 111011111011010 100011100111001001 11110101101110 101010010101110100 101101001000101 10101111011010010
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1983
- Average number of words per stanza: 379
- Amount of lines: 86
- Average number of symbols per line: 68 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 13
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; on, and, of, in, for, we, it, i, from, they, their, him, as are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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