This is an analysis of the poem Do The Dead Know What Time It Is? that begins with:

The old guy put down his beer.
Son, he said,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XabXcadefagXfagdhabdcecHdh XH
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 26,2,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0111101 111 1011100010110 1111101001 1111001110 01011111101 10111110101 10111110011 11100110100110 1001 111000111101 110 11101010010 111110011 111111 1101 11110111101 110100111 101010 011 1110110 1101101101001 111101101110 111101 11110110111 11111101 111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 479
  • Average number of words per stanza: 100
  • Amount of lines: 28
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, to are repeated.

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