This is an analysis of the poem Plague Of Dead Sharks that begins with:

Who knows whether the sea heals or corrodes?
The wading, wintered pack-beasts of the feet ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: AbaXXaXbXabcacXXXbAX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1110011101 0101011001 11001011001 10010011101 10010010101 101010010001 111110101 111101011 11010111 101011111 1101010101 1101011001 110101000101 1111110111 0011010101 000100011100010 1111011101 1101000100111 1110011101 10111000111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 900
  • Average number of words per stanza: 165
  • Amount of lines: 20
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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