This is an analysis of the poem Saint Judas that begins with:

When I went out to kill myself, I caught
A pack of hoodlums beating up a man....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababbcbc bdebde
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 1111011111 0101010101 10010100101 1111011101 1101010101 1101011111 11001011101 1001011101 100101101010 1111011011 0111010101 11010111110 0111111011 1101110011
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 300
  • Average number of words per stanza: 55
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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, i, how are repeated.

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  • summary of Saint Judas;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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