This is an analysis of the poem The Poet And His Book that begins with:
Down, you mongrel, Death!
Back into your kennel!...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcddc eeeecfXc XgaXXhhe edeXiggi ededjeeX khkhlggl hjhjceec lhLhkbbk LglgcXcc hXhgmhhm nXnblddl bfbfoggo bfbfhhhX iXihlgXlXebebiggi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,17,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101 100110 11101 001010 1111111 100111110 100101110 11101 11101 111010 10111 101010 1010101 11101110 11111100 10001 0110010 111010 00101 101100 01101010 11011010 10111110 11111 11111 0110110 10101 1011000 1110101 101010010 00110110 11101 10101 101010 10001 1010010 0010101 00101110 10101010 00101 10111 001010 10101 101010 1111111 10101010 11001010 11111 11111 111010 10101 101110 10100101 10101110 10111010 10101 11111 1000010 11111 110110 1111101 00111110 10101110 11011 11111 101110 10101 101010 1010101 100111100 11011110 00101 10101 001010 001001 001110 101101 10111010 10101010 10101 11101 1111100 01111 011010 1110100 01101010 10101110 10001 10111 101110 10101 101110 1011101 10100110 11101010 11011 11111 001010 00101 101010 10010001 101010010 10101110 1001010 11111 1010100 11001 101110 1010101 10101110 11101010 11111 10111 0010010 10111 1001110 10010111 00111110 10111110 10111
- Amount of stanzas: 15
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 215
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 120
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, and, your, me are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words many, when, in, men, women are repeated.
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- summary of The Poet And His Book;
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