This is an analysis of the poem The Fury Of God's Good-Bye that begins with:

One day He
tipped His top hat...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbXbXXXbcXdeXbacfXbcfdeXffXebd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 31,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111 1011 11 1001 100100 111 10 111100 111 101 101010 111 110 10001 110 0101 01010 11 11000 111 111 1110 1111 010 110 101 1101 110 010010 11 11
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 459
  • Average number of words per stanza: 92
  • Amount of lines: 31
  • Average number of symbols per line: 14 (very short strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 3
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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  • summary of The Fury Of God's Good-Bye;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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