This is an analysis of the poem The Lay For The Troubled Golfer that begins with:
His eye was wild and his face was taut with anger and hate and rage,
And the things he muttered were much too strong for the ink of...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xaabb Xccc XXddcc eeaacX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 0111101110101111 1011100111101001011111101110011111 1010101011110101 111011010010100101 1101111111110011 11110010011111101 111111001011010110111001001001101111111100100101111101 10111100111101101 111010010110111001 1110100011110101 111011110111001011 111010011100100101 11111111011011001 0111101111011101 1111110011001101001 110011110110100101 1111001010100111 10111110101100101 1111001111100101 1110011101101100101 1111100110011010010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 488
- Average number of words per stanza: 91
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 92 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 17
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his, and, he, i, of, my, i've are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, i are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word nine at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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