This is an analysis of the poem Killers that begins with:
I am singing to you
Soft as a man with a dead child speaks;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xaab ccXda aXee Xffd ddgddgbec
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,5,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111001 110100111 1101011 111101 1001 101101 101101 1111 10100111011 101111011 10111011 100110110110 110 110010111 11111110000 11111111100 011110111 1100111010 1101101001 011010110001 100110111 10010001010111 100100111 101101010110 10 01101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 183
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 26
- 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; and, them, in, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, they, some are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines killing, them, always are repeated).
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