This is an analysis of the poem Gods that begins with:
Ms. Sexton went out looking for the gods.
She began looking in the sky...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXX B cd B ec B fd B f B aa B cX eeX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,1,2,1,2,1,2,1,1,1,2,1,2,3,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101110101 10110001 010011100011 11 11101011 1011110 11 11010000110 111001 11 1101010001 110110110 11 110001000101101 11 1100100100100 110111 11 111010011 10100101001010 11 111 1101
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 47
- Average number of words per stanza: 9
- Amount of lines: 23
- 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.
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