This is an analysis of the poem Unclean that begins with:
I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am
like an owl of the desert. I watch, and am...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXX XbcbXcaXcXcXXcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,15,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101000010011 11100101111 101001010100 11 01000100010111 1001010101110 101011111111100 1111110101110 10001110101110 111111101111 101111101010101 10110110011 11010000101010 101011101000101 1101011111110 1111111010111 0101000101010 11101110100010 1010111111101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 480
- Average number of words per stanza: 92
- Amount of lines: 19
- Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, to are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines am is repeated).
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- summary of Unclean;
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