This is an analysis of the poem Gun Toters that begins with:
Does a madness...
Labelled as it is and justified, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCADabeb CFGADBD bdbdXd befdcad ABCADab habhcX cbcc XbXCFGADBDha
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,7,6,7,7,6,4,12,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010 101001101 0100010101 1010100 1101001001 010110100 0111010 10010 100101010 11001101 10100 1010111 1110101 0100010 101 111101 001001101101 111 1101010 001 1001 101010 110111 111010 100101100 010101 00111 110101100 10101 1010 101001101 0100010101 1010100 1101001001 010100 0111010110010 111001 110101 01001 1011111 11110 1010101 1100111010 10011001 1010110100 1010101 1111 01001001 11001101 10100 1010111 1110101 0100010 101 111101 100101101 010100
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 178
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 57
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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; to is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word at is repeated.
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- summary of Gun Toters;
- central theme;
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- critical appreciation.
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