This is an analysis of the poem Eve Of St. Agony Or The Middleclass Was Sitting On Its Fat that begins with:

Man-dirt and stomachs that the sea unloads; rockets
of quick lice crawling inland, planting their damn flags, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXbXaXcXdbXXbbbefXgecfcaXgafXdX aaf Xd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 32,3,2,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111101010110 011101110111 10110001011011 10101011111101 100101101010 01010110111011 011110110011010 1000111101110101 10111010010010 111011111010101 110101010101000 01111010110011111 010010011101001 101100111001110 100011101101110 10110110001101001 10111010110111 110101110111011 111011011011010 1010101110101100010 01101000111101 11001101111111111 10101001111110111 1101011100101101101 1001011011110011111 1100101001110010101 11101111010111011110 1011010011001010011 11111010111110011 1111110011111101010 011011101100111 00100110011001010111 101111011 100100101101 1110101011 110111110101010111
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 788
  • Average number of words per stanza: 149
  • Amount of lines: 38
  • Average number of symbols per line: 61 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 12
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.

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  • summary of Eve Of St. Agony Or The Middleclass Was Sitting On Its Fat;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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