This is an analysis of the poem Tortoise Shout that begins with:
I thought he was dumb,
I said he was dumb, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aab acaa X decc af cagfchbcc cccci cggXjecXkaglff dddgkf eaghda bkmfegfgdmXafjlXd eefghj dcdd fXXffid
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,4,1,4,2,9,5,14,6,6,17,6,4,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111 11111 11111 111 101010001 11111010100010101 11111 100100 101101001 10111101110001 1101 1110001110001 01101001 100110101 11010011 01 01 01 01 01100 011 0010 110101011010011 1110010111010 11011 0101001111 01111 1001110110 1010 1101001010101111 10111101101001 010100 11111000101011010011 1011011010110101 10110111010010010 11000010010101010111 10001100011 110110111 10100 0011111 10101 110010101001 011010010 010001010 1001110010010101010111 0100011 111101101101101 00010100011010 11111 11011111 1011010100 0100100 100010010 1111101010110 101011101 1101001111001001011101 101011111110010001 101010011100101 1100101010 101001110010010010001011101001011 1010010010111101111 1010010001101101010010100100 101011101001011001 101001001011010110 110010010010010101111 11001000011001 0110110 111010001 101101000100100110111110101 011000101 1111 11111 11111 01 11101 0011010100 10010010100101101001 01 01111101010 1111101001101000001110 100101 111100111100101101010100 10110110011010101 1001101101101101 01100101010100100100 11011010 11001100101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 15
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 266
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 87
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; far, we, torn, and, of, i, remember, our, calling, us are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, far, why, as, a, the, and, that are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines dumb, membrane, ghost, these are repeated).
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