This is an analysis of the poem Dillard Sissman that begins with:
The buzzards wheel slowly
In wide circles, in a sky...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbdcXdaefdXXbeXfeXdX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 22,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010110 0110001 1010101001 10111010111 10010011 1100101 1111010 10110010 1011110100 1101 1010111 100100110 01111011 1011111 1011101 11111 10110100111 11011010010 001011 0101101010 1011 11101010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 721
- Average number of words per stanza: 139
- Amount of lines: 22
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
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