This is an analysis of the poem The Death Of Joy Gardner that begins with:
They put a leather belt around her
13 feet of tape and bound her ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaabaacadaXXefffe ggXeeeeebbbhiggh jjjklllmccXXbmmk fffnfXfnfffdaXid
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 17,16,16,16,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110101010 1101110 110010 1101111 10101010 10100110 11 11110 1110101 0011010 010010 10100100 1101011 01111010 10100010 11100110 101111010 11000101 10110101 11110101 011101 11010111 01011101 11011001 1010101 11100011 11100011 110010101 010101 11111010 00101010 010101010 011001 10110100 01010100 1110100 01101 1101101 01100101 01011101 011101 11010101 11111101 11110111 111101 11111101 1111111 01011111 111101 111101010 110101010 0111010 010001 1111010 00101000 11110010 1110101 111011110 1101010 11101010 0010001 1101110 10100100 11101010 1110101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 468
- Average number of words per stanza: 87
- Amount of lines: 65
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; her, i, know, not are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, the are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines her is repeated).
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