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

JAGUAR
Nasal intonations of light and clicking tongues… publicity of windows stoning me with pent-up cries… smells of abattoirs… smells of...

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  • Rhyme scheme: a b b acXXXcXXbXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,1,11,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic trimeter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 11 100010011101010001010101111010010111 1111010110101010110001101111010011110110101100111110100010011010111100101110110101 11 11010111 11100010101 1101 111 101111 001010001 11 01100010001 1111 11011
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 196
  • Average number of words per stanza: 37
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 55 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 10
  • 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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  • summary of Monologues;
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  • history of its creation;
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