This is an analysis of the poem A Dull Sound, Varying Now And Again that begins with:

And then we began eating corn starch,
chalk chewed wet into sirup. We pilfered...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XabbaX XbXcXdXdc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,9,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 111011011 1110010110 1010101010 11111110 11111101011001 10101010101 1011011111 111111111 01001011011101 101011111 0010110111 1011010111101 0011001 110101101
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 194
  • Average number of words per stanza: 36
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my is repeated.

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