This is an analysis of the poem Bat that begins with:
His awful skin
stretched out by some tradesman ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbXcdaeaabXebcbdeaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101 1111100 0111101110 010100101 10111111010 10111110111 1111100101 011011 111111001 101010101 010011011001 11101010011 011110111 111101101 11001010110 111010010010 110101111 11010001 1100101010111 1001010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 797
- Average number of words per stanza: 155
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, to, i are repeated.
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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