This is an analysis of the poem The Gods! The Gods! that begins with:

People were bathing and posturing themselves on the beach,
and all was dreary, great robot limbs, robot breasts, ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXa Xa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,2,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: cinquain
  • Metre: 10010110001101 111101111111 1110111001010 101011011100110011010001000111 10111010
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 151
  • Average number of words per stanza: 27
  • Amount of lines: 5
  • Average number of symbols per line: 60 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 11
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

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