This is an analysis of the poem Laughing Blue Steel that begins with:
TWO fishes swimming in the sea,
Two birds flying in the air,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaaXbbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010001 1110001 110111010 10101011011010 11110001001101 11110001001101 11110111 10110100101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 344
- Average number of words per stanza: 68
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; two, 'em, chisel are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words two, sure, take are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines maybe is repeated).
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