This is an analysis of the poem The Kitchen Shears Speak that begins with:
This division must end.
Again I'm forced to amputate...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbc baXX dede faed XXXd faca Xc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,2,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 001011 01010101 0101101 1011101 1101101 10100101 111011 11011101 0101001011 1011111101 1101011111 111111010 10111011 01111 111011010 10101010 1011101 1011011 010110111 1111111 101101111 1010111010 10101010 110111 0001101110 11010101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 128
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- 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; and, from are repeated.
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