This is an analysis of the poem Gregory Corso that begins with:

Budger of history Brake of time You Bomb
Toy of universe Grandest of all snatched sky I cannot hate you...

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  • Rhyme scheme: abccdefgfaccXgheXijddkgljjmdmXmebceijdajejnXXXXjjceelkljbcajoelaadpeanbXqqeebbdackocknpjajaXccgclcXXncaalacjjXcnjdddklljpjjjjjnjjjjjjppkXdmdjeopjdnhdnigXlehXlglbaagjajaajfaXdffmfljhmeadmjl
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 188,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10010010111 1010110011111011 1110100101011011 010101101010101 101110101101111011 110110010101010011 111110010111011001 111110111111110110 1111101011111010 101010101101111111 10101110111110011 1101101111111101000 1010011111101001101 10110010100101010 001011011100101111 111111111101011001 11111100110111010 1101111101111100 010111001001011100 10100111011111011 1111111001001110010 11101111110001111 0101110101001110 11101000100111 11001101011 1011010101101 101101110011 11000110001 01010100111 10110110 1001010101 011101 1010101 1010101 01001001 1000010010100 101101001010 1010101001 10101101 0100101 11101 0101111 1001001 10010010100 101010 1000101000 0010010011 10010010 101110 11101000101 101001001 01101 1110101 101110101 1010011101 101010101 010011111 010011010 01010100 101010 011010 1101 10101 100011001 101011011 101101011 1001001001 0110101 0110101011 100101001 10100101 11010111010 111110111 01010101101 110111011 101011101 111101111 1010101 100100010011 111010001011 11010001010 11100000101 1110010 1001101010100 1010111100011 1001111 011010101 0110000101 01100001 1110011 1101101 0110101001000 101110010101 01010101 11110110 11110101111 101011 0101110101 1101110 10011000 1011000100101 01010100011 1101001 110101 01001011 111101 11110101010 101001000101 11011101001 1110100110101001 11101001101 010010110010101 1111001111 11111111100111 11111010111111 1011000010100011 11101110100 111101 0101001101 1010100110 11110101100 0111011001 1111011011 10011011101010 1111001101 100111 111101 1101111 10101 1110101001 1111011 0100101011 11110101001 110110100 11011111 11010101 01101 01010111101 11110110110 01010001 11011101 1011001000101 1100100 101011 1101011 11011101 1110011010101 1111001011001 010010001010 101111101 11111100 1010010010 1101001 1010010 0011001 100101101 10010 0100110111 110110110110 1101110001 11111 110111111 1101011001 010101010 1111101 11111 1111111 1111111 1111111 11111111 11111101 101011101 10011000 11111101 111111 010101 1100110101 1001011110 10110101000001 10010100111 110011101010101 1101010101 110010101011 1101001001 1001010111001 10100110101100 11111110100 1010001
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 7381
  • Average number of words per stanza: 1347
  • Amount of lines: 188
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; of, and, you, by, some, die, death's, deaths, like, i, in, that, all, to, there, songs, boom, ye, bomb are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, bomb, that, or, and, i, nor, boom are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines bomb, him, songs, boom are repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase boom connects the lines.

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