This is an analysis of the poem The Last Days Of The Suicide Kid that begins with:

I can see myself now
after all these suicide days and nights, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcdbEXfgDhijbfklicdhEXbdlDXgjjXajiXkaXkc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 41,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111111 1011101111 101101011011 01001001110110 10100111 11110010111 1111101000011011 10 101001 000010110010 111 010111111001 1101011 0111 1110111101 10001 11110 01 0011111011 10010 111 11110010111 1110101010 10 111011010 1 000010110010 111100101011010 11 111111 1011111 111111 10101011 1101101010111 11 01101110100111 10011 11101 10001110110 1100 01
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1266
  • Average number of words per stanza: 237
  • Amount of lines: 41
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, gone, it are repeated.

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