This is an analysis of the poem A Real Thriller that begins with:
We were speakin' of excitement, an' the hair upliftin' thrills
That sorter dot life's landscape, like the bill board ads. for pills, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddee ffccddggee eehhffaaeX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,10,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101000101011001 11011111011111 111010100011111 101010101111111 101110100010101 101111101010111 111111010011011 0010010101011111 10101010101101 101010101010101 11010101110001 101110101010111 101011101110001 101100011010101 111000111010101 111010100010101 111011101110101 111011101110101 111111101010101 101010101010101 11011011110100 010100111011101 01010101010111 01010101110101 110010100111110 111111101010011 011010101110101 101010101110001 111001101111101 101010101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 608
- Average number of words per stanza: 116
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 60 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, an', in, that, than, it, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words an', i, a are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word ruts at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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