This is an analysis of the poem Road Kill that begins with:
The three crows are scuttling back and forth
between the gutter and the dead possum...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbbcdbaedXddfghfgeeXeXibhjjci
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 30,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0111100111 0101010110 1010110 1010110110010 10110110101 01101001110 11110100110 1000101001 1011101011 11111111110100 100101100010 011100100 11110001010 1111111010 01010010 0011110101 101011010 01010110101 11000100100111 0010001100111 110110010 01101110011 100010011 1111 010110110110 11010101011 01010011 1101101 11111001 11100100110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1601
- Average number of words per stanza: 215
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 52 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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