This is an analysis of the poem The Alligator Bride that begins with:
The clock of my days winds down.
The cat eats sparrows outside my window....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbcdbe bfeXg bdXfhd gfaa abig jifgbg fbajXcfXhXXhabdgggb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,5,6,4,4,6,19,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101111 0111011110 11110110 1101001010 010010 1011 100001010 10111111 11100110 1001010 1001 0010101 101011 1011101 011 1001 00101101 11100110 1111 11010 010101 110011 010 01 100 1010101 0100101 001000010010 10010 0010111 1110 11010101 11011010 1011 0100 11010011 01001111 11010 0101100 10011010 0001 10101 011111 01110101100 101110 1010010010 010101 100101 111 1100110
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 156
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 50
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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