This is an analysis of the poem Under The Locusts that begins with:
What do the old men say,
Sitting out of the sun?...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xaba cdXd cbbb aebe efbf bbXb ggag
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110111 101001 1011101 111101 1011101 11001 10111001 111111 1010101 10101 1010101 010101 1010101 10101 1010101 10101 10101101 101010 1011111 0101110 1010101 11100 1110001 011100 1010101 10101 1110101 111101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 106
- Average number of words per stanza: 19
- Amount of lines: 34
- Average number of symbols per line: 21 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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