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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