This is an analysis of the poem In California During The Gulf War that begins with:

Among the blight-killed eucalypts, among
trees and bushes rusted by Christmas frosts,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abc XXd daa eXf fcc ecXd XXX bXXXfdd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,4,3,7,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 0101110001 1110101101 0111101011001 1010110100 101111001111 010001011 1101010010010 1001101001011010 01010010 01010010111001 01111001101 101101011110 1010100110 110110111 100101 100100 11 110011010 11010001010 010101111101 11011111010011 1001011 01011101110 010001001010100 1100110111000 10100110110010010 0111111111011 0111001110
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 137
  • Average number of words per stanza: 23
  • Amount of lines: 28
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, and, no are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word as is repeated.

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