This is an analysis of the poem Shake The Superflux! that begins with:
I like walking on streets as black and wet as this one
now, at two in the solemnly musical morning, when everyone else...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdbeeefaXdghghgcgcdbXdXgecbcebcigjagXbcdgbdgafXcejgffgXgighjcdga
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 66,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1110111111101 111001001001011011 001100100011010 00111011001 11001101000101 0001001011010110 100001110110 01011111010 000101111011 1110111110 110011101001 111010101 0010011011011 01100000010011010 100111111011101 010101111001010 101111100111 011011010110 01001100111 001001101010 0101010011001 01010010101101 1010110100 1101111101 10001011111 011100110001 10110010101110 1010111001110 10111010110100010 10100100011010 0111010111110 1110101110010 10110100101 1110111011001 01010100110 01010100100111 0101000010111110 1001001101000100 110110111100110 11110110100101 1111011001 1111111001 11010110101 1001100010100001 010011001101 11111101011 11011100010101 011110010011101 0111111010010 10000110100 1100111110 111010100111 10111011011 1010101111101 1011110010101 01010001011011 011110101011 11110101101001010 11010101 011010101 001011110110 0011101111 011100101011 110011010111 001010011011 0010110110111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 3290
- Average number of words per stanza: 597
- Amount of lines: 66
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (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; i, and, of, to, who, it, what, my are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines do is repeated).
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