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...
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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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