This is an analysis of the poem A Poem About George Doty In The Death House that begins with:
Lured by the wall, and drawn
To stare below the roof,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbacaac deefgddg dhhdfiXf ajjajkkj lkkldhhdXaccahffi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,17,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110111 010101 110101 010111 110111 010101 110111 101101 100101 1001001 0111100 110101 0110101 110111 01101001 110001 0101111 1001001 011111 110111 1101001 111101 100111 1001001 011101 1001110 1101010 010101 11001010 100101 0010101 0101010 101111 110100 110001 110101 010011 100111 111111 100101 111101 110101 111101 110101 1111110 1100111 1010111 100101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 212
- Average number of words per stanza: 41
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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