This is an analysis of the poem Fish Food (An Obituary To Hart Crane) that begins with:
As you drank deep as Thor, did you think of milk or wine?
Did you drink blood, while you drank the salt deep? ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdeXcfgfdf bXXhXgfhfaaih ggjceeXXfijh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,13,12,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111110110111 0111111011 111010111011001 011010011101 1111001000101 111100100010010 011110111111 010110100101 0100010010101101 1010110101010 11001101001011 0101001011010 10110110111110 101101100111 1111001110101 111010100111 110001011010110 1011001100101 01010101101010 111010111101 010110010111 0101001011111001 1011001110 10111001101 1001010101111 100111001101011 11110101111 10101011101110 11101111111 1111011011 01110111101 11111101111111 110111101111 10100100100101010 10111111011111 001110010 10111011111110
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 683
- Average number of words per stanza: 128
- Amount of lines: 37
- Average number of symbols per line: 54 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, of, fishes, your, what, as are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word fishes is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines you is repeated).
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