This is an analysis of the poem From Violence To Peace that begins with:

Twenty-eight shotgun pellets
crater my thighs, belly and groin....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcd decedffbbcfgcgcd XhXhXadidbbbjddklXhXjmX XXXccaj Xadhgd dccjmlgcn eccXcfbbbkc hAA fe cndccoeipclodcXcej gfmicjafcgdhlXefmjccdb bdmddcXbdchj caXdakXX fdccXbccj ljXdk eXcpcpaldcac cfaadaajfXcjihjacpgcpc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,16,23,7,6,9,11,3,2,18,22,12,8,9,5,12,22,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1011110 10111011 1101111 100101010 11101101 0100010111 11 10101001 110011111 011100110101 010001100101 01101010011001 111010111 01 1111110101 10011011010 011001111011 111010010 110101101011 11111 001001 11101101011 1100110 1100011111 0110 111 10111111 001001 10101 110101111 110011 1010001001 1111111 1110111 1111001 11111 101 0010111 1101 11110 101001 11010 10011 11011100100 1110110 11101 001001010 00110110 0100111 0110101 010110100 001011101 001001 01010101 10010110 1101 10010 10101101 101010 100010 1010 01101001 0101011010 101111 01 010011011 10011010 01101 1111 010110011 10101 1 01001010101 01101011 1101111 100111 1111101011 1011 1011 10111001 1111011011 11101 11101011 11011 01001001010010 101110001 0101011011 101011001 101011 010101011101 1010101 100101011101 1111101 1011011 11 11100 1111 1101011 110110 1001001010 1011 010 11101010 01100101 0101101 1101001 101001 11011 00110 1101 11111111 1101101 1111010 10001111 11101101 111101110 10110101 100010111010 1101010101 1111110110 1111010101001 1011101 10010001 101010111010 1010001101 10110010100 1010111011 1111011 010 011111 1010101001 1011111 110 111 01011101 1011001 101010010 101111101001 1011 10011111 1010 1111011 0011011 0100111011 01010101 11010101 111011 110001 1110111010 00111101011 11001 11111 00111110001 1100110111 0111 1001011 1110010 110110 1110011111 001110011 10011 1101 10001001001 010011 1110101 01001010100 1110101 101101 1010101 000101 101101010110 11011101 01011001101001 11110 010111011 11001011 1000101011 0101011010011 01111001 010001001010 0100101101 110110100 1100101111 11110101101 01011101111110 111010111 0101001111011 1001010
  • Amount of stanzas: 18
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 397
  • Average number of words per stanza: 61
  • Amount of lines: 191
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, and, groan, thick, s, of, you, bull are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words that, and, i are repeated.

    The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines groan, voice, again are repeated).

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