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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