This is an analysis of the poem Monologue Of A Commercial Fisherman that begins with:

“If you work a body of water and a body of woman
you can take fish out of one and children out of the other ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbbcdbcebdXXdeae
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 17,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0110100101010010 111110111010010 1011001001000 11110001011 101110100110 000010100011 11100110001 100110010110010 0111110101010 1011101001111 011110101001 11010111001 1011101011101 1110101001111 111010110001 1100101110010 11111011101011
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 892
  • Average number of words per stanza: 177
  • Amount of lines: 17
  • Average number of symbols per line: 52 (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; of, and, in, it, you, by are repeated.

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