This is an analysis of the poem In The Loop that begins with:
I heard from people after the shootings. People
I knew well or barely or not at all. Largely...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abacdXbeefeecceXXdcfegcfccXg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 28,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110101001010 111110111110 0110110001110 110101110001 10111011 01111110101 0110100101000 11011001010 01101011010 011111100 01001010110 011111110 101110110011 1101101101 100110101 10011011011 111101111 00101100 1100100101101 1011001010111 001011101110 10111011001 100101101110 0111001010 01011001011 001101001101 1010101110110 1101110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1203
- Average number of words per stanza: 234
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; how, nothing, to, say, and, for, that, good, scarf, train are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, to, that are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines nothing, guns are repeated).
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