This is an analysis of the poem Controlled By The Physicality Of Things that begins with:

Reprisals?
From them? ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abc ccdea Xfeebd GX ccfcXhX GXc Xg Xga aahaXGf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,5,6,2,7,3,2,3,7,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 010 00 010 10010100 010110100 01011010010 1010101 101000001 11111011 00110010110 110000010 1011110101 10101001100 101000010110 11110 111010101 100011000101 0101 111110 110 110101 11001 111110111 11110 1110 1110010 0101 111010 010111110 010011 1110100011010 01101010001 100101011010 1100101111 00101001 11110 11011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 113
  • Average number of words per stanza: 20
  • Amount of lines: 37
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

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