This is an analysis of the poem Fight that begins with:
Red drips from my chin where I have been eating.
Not all the blood, nowhere near all, is wiped off my mouth....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbXc cab addXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,3,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011111010 1101111101111 101111 1010010111 11010 111010 11010 1101 11110101010 1111101001110 01011 0111011011111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 103
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, i, red, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines killer is repeated).
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- summary of Fight;
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