This is an analysis of the poem Farm Implements And Rutabagas In A Landscape that begins with:

The first of the undecoded messages read: "Popeye sits
in thunder,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XAbXXbcbd dbAbbbcX edXXXXbXX bXefbdab bXbfXXXb bbXdXbeaXabe
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,8,9,8,8,12,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0100100010011001 010 100011001010 0101010100100100 110111010101110 10 0110101110010001 1 01110101101010 1110011001111010 10001101011111 010 011010111011 0100110010010 101101010110 10101110011001 100 1001010101100010 101100101001011010 101101101010100 1101010111001 100 111100000110001 11010 01010110110011 100 101101010001001 011101101110011 1101010 11010101010010 100101000010 11100111110 011001101010 101010010100010 10001011110 10010111010110 1 1111010100100101 100 111010100100100 10111111010100100 1011101000110010 1101010101110010 010011110000110 1001011100011110 10 1111110111011001 10011 111000101001010 1011101100111010 1100100101010 010010111011 010111001010010
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 368
  • Average number of words per stanza: 59
  • Amount of lines: 53
  • Average number of symbols per line: 48 (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; of is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines spinach, country, scratched, pleasant, apartment, thunder are repeated).

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