This is an analysis of the poem Giant Snail that begins with:
The rain has stopped. The waterfall will roar like that all
night. I have come out to take a walk and feed. My body--foot,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdececdfXbXXcXXghciajgkcbhcabjkfhiXje
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 39,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0111010101111 111110101111101 100111110011000 1010010111111010 10110110101111 111111111010101 011110101011101 01010110010001001100 100010100101111010 10111111111101 101111011101 10100111 0111010111011 1011100010011111 1011010110111 10011101010111 11011110011110 11110100 1111111101011 11010101110 1001011000111001 010101011110111 10111 111010111010 1010100111101010 10111111111111 110101101001111 1010101111111 10111011111110 10011111101101 1111110011100010 01001001111111100010 111110010111010 100010110 111111110101 0111101111000101 11010101010101 1111011101101011 11111010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2324
- Average number of words per stanza: 439
- Amount of lines: 39
- Average number of symbols per line: 59 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, i, heavy, my, cold, it are repeated.
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