This is an analysis of the poem Fabrication Of Ancestors that begins with:
For old Billy Dugan, shot in the ass in the Civil War, my father said.
The old wound in my ass ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a XbcXddceXXfefcbXcaXdbXbdX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,25,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110101001001011101 011011 11010111 110100 010111 11101 011101 0101011 111100 110110 1111001 011111 110001 1010101 1101001 11011101 1101001 111011 01010001 011111 11010101 010111 0110101 011101 111101 0010100
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 374
- Average number of words per stanza: 77
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word in is repeated.
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