This is an analysis of the poem Already Dead that begins with:
A crackpot gringo in Guatemala told me:
when the pilots of the suicide planes began...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabXXXabXbaXXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 011100101011 101000101101 111101100101 100101010100 01010100111 0101101010110 01111101011110 1111100110101 11110001001 111101010101 111011001010 1101011010010 1111111101011 01110010101101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 677
- Average number of words per stanza: 124
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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