This is an analysis of the poem Gargoyle that begins with:
I SAW a mouth jeering. A smile of melted red iron ran over it. Its laugh was full of nails rattling. It was a child's dream of a mouth.
A fist hit...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011001010110110001110110001011001 011011001101011010111001011011 01101101100110101110101101001100 1110101100101101010110101100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 506
- Average number of words per stanza: 99
- Amount of lines: 4
- Average number of symbols per line: 126 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 25
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, mouth, of, fist, over, it are repeated.
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