This is an analysis of the poem Dirty In Their Pits. Misfits that begins with:
They now are found,
Down, down, down, down......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCBCDd Xeaff Xegeg ABCBCDdXBaeBd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,5,5,13,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111 1111 011010 11111 101110 10011 11 10111011 01110 1010111 0101110 100011010 1011101 01010 1011001 11010 101011000111 1111 1111 011010 11111 101110 10011 10101 11111 10111 1001 11111 1001111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 152
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; down is repeated.
The author used the same word haters at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase undertakings connects the lines.
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