This is an analysis of the poem Letter To An Archaeologist that begins with:
Citizen, enemy, mama's boy, sucker, utter
garbage, panhandler, swine, refujew, verrucht;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXabcbcXcdcddede
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001001011010 10110110010 011101001010 1010110101 111110010110 101110101 11100111011010 1011011101101 100101011110 10101110111101 10110011100 1110001010011 111011101110 100111110101 100101011010 0110111111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 798
- Average number of words per stanza: 130
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (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; and is repeated.
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