This is an analysis of the poem POEM EN FORME DE SAW that begins with:

I ducked out of sight behind the saw-mill
nobody saw me because of the falls the gates the sluice the tourist boats...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcdXcXXXbeXeeXefagddeXghgXdhXfXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 33,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1110101011 111110100101010101 0100101100010 101101100101100010 111101101001 111111000110001010 011011011101101001001100 11101011101011 1100001 101110010011 11101110 1110111101011 001 0100101001111000 01001 10101110101111110001 111110101000110 11010001 11011010010 110110111010101 0111110010001000110 1101 111111101101000 0111010 11011010101011010 01110 1010101101 111101010101 10101010110 1101101 0101 01101100101001 1110100100101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1520
  • Average number of words per stanza: 284
  • Amount of lines: 33
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; as, that, i, to are repeated.

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