This is an analysis of the poem Go Greyhound that begins with:
A few hours after Des Moines
the toilet overflowed....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aba abcdXefgfb d XgXedaah ibbjkladmlnjdb eXfaaag ka Xhcndoik ndXXXao Xndaaa dkbfXgdmgXbch
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,10,1,8,14,7,2,8,7,6,13,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01101011 010101 010001001 11001101 11110 11101101 00101001 10101 1011100 10100010 011 100010010 1010011 10101101 110010110 01001001 010010 00100101010 1 1101010 111 0010110001 1010110 0101 10101101 11011 001 001011010 11010 01101 011110 0011010 110 1101011 011 0110001 01010 00101111 101 1111111 11 1110110 101 11101 011010 11111111 001001 1101101 110011 001010 101111 11 01111111 111 01001001 11000 101001010 1110 10110010 100001 11101010 1111010 10100 1111 111 1000111 1111001 1111 101 111001 10010101 100 1101101 110 11011 1010 01011101 11011111 0101
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 177
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 79
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (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 is repeated.
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- summary of Go Greyhound ;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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