This is an analysis of the poem Electrocuting An Elephant that begins with:
Her handlers, dressed in vests and flannel pants,
Step forward in the weak winter light ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcbcdcdedefef bdbdfdfgfgagahah fifijijajafafXfX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,16,16,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 01001011101 110001101 10001001100 10001010101 1000001010 10101010001 10101100110 100110111 11111100110 10111110001 010100101 10101010101 01001011101 110101010 11001011101 010101001010 10101110101 011010101 11011010001 100101011101 111101010 11110010011 11001001010 111111101 10110110110 01110101001 110110111 11101011001 01101011101 000110101 01010000101 10100011101 11101100101 101101111 11001010100 110101011010 111110001 10101010100 11111110101 110011101 01011010101 01110101100 110100010 11101010100 11101100010 110100100 01001001010 11101011
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 680
- Average number of words per stanza: 113
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, and are repeated.
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