This is an analysis of the poem The Shooting Of John Dillinger Outside The Biograph Theater, July 22, 1934 that begins with:
Chicago ran a fever of a hundred and one that groggy Sunday.
A reporter fried an egg on a sidewalk; the air looked shaky....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbbXdedfgdgXcdhddXijiXiifXcigiXjjjjbbXbkkXkkhhhhlXdllbdXjXbeggemimimXgmihhhhhhXhebbabjXjjjckkkkhinXmickXXcgggggcnccckfkkkifXhiiXadbdbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 136,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011101000101111011 0010111101101110 101010100001110 010 111010 1011101010011110 1010 101110111010110 110 1010111101001010 10011 111010 100101001111010 100000 11011111010110 11110 10110011011101 01010 1100010 111010111011011 010 110111011111 11010 101001111110111 10 1100010 11111010101110 10010 11010111101011 1010 10011110111011 10 1100100 110110101011101 1110111001000111 1100111010011010 111010 011101011110010 01010111100110 111010111101000 11010 10110111011010111 001010111110110 010110111010011 1100010 010101 1001011010011001 11001001111101100 111101110111110 01011 111100111010010 001100101011010100 11101110100111 10 1111010 101010001100010 010101011111001 10101000 110101010110101 1100 010110 101111110100 01001011001001 1010111100110 110010 1111010100010001 101111100100 110010110100111 1100110 11111101010101 100101010101010 101 0011010110111 110010 11111011101001 1110101101111001 1101100110101010 010011 111010100110100101 010101101110011 1100111110010 01011 111110111001 0010 1111000101110 111010111110111 010110 11001110011011 110110101101 101 11010111010101 011101 10111111111110 10 001101010110010 00101001010010010 010101 110110010011101 10 01100010010100101 10100 100111100111 11001010 1110110111010 111101011011010 100 1010101000110110 010101 1101111101010 11101001101 0110 101101001110110 110110 111100101010111 1010100111010 10 111110110100101 1110110 111010011110101 0110111011000 100 11011100110101 0100111 110101010010010 10100110111100 1000 11010010111101 010 1100010 10111001110010110 101 0111111111010 1001010 010111011001001 11010 110111000
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 5788
- Average number of words per stanza: 1042
- Amount of lines: 136
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; he, and, saying, his, under, through are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words with, under, and are repeated.
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