This is an analysis of the poem Roosters that begins with:
At four o'clock
in the gun-metal blue dark...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaa Xbb ccc ddd eee Xee fff cgg ffh ccc ffX fff ffX ffX iiX jXj hhh Xii Xee hhh XcX ekk jjj lll jjj fff lll ffX kkk hhh llX Xgg fXf aaa ccc XlX mnm ccc nXm jjj Xoo nnm ppp lXh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101 0011011 110110011 101 0110110 10100010110 10010 1100111 110100010 11011 001001 10011010101 101 10010101 001010111 10011 110101 0101110111 0101 101111 010101001 100101 011101 1001110101 0101 1111 01010101 1011 010101 11010101 1011 010101 11010110 10110 1011010 10110101010 1010 0101010 10111110 1101 111101 10111000 11110 0100010 11010011100 110 1011100 10111010 1101010 011101110 110111110 10010000 111101 01111101 1100011000 111111 01010111 0101 111101 01011101 11100 1011010 111101001000 1011 1111110 1101110 11010 0101010010 100010010 11110 110101 011101011 1111 110101 10111101 0011 010101 1101010101 1101 11110100 11100101 01010 100101 01010011000 11010 1101010 01111110 1101 101101 00111101 1001 010101 11011000100 0111010 1101010 10101001010 111101 111100 11101 10101 1001010 1111011 1101 11010111 01010101010 01100 1010011 11110100 11110 01110100 10101010111 10101 0001011 100101001 10010 110001100 0110101 0010 011010 0011110 0101 0100111 11011101 10010 101010 11011001 01010 11001010 0111110100 0110 100101010 10110011
- Amount of stanzas: 44
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 84
- Average number of words per stanza: 15
- Amount of lines: 133
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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; their, here, and, of, deny are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words then, each, with, the are repeated.
The author used the same words over, each, and, the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Roosters;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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