This is an analysis of the poem In Heat that begins with:
Too many get their guns ready,
When they get in heat....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABAB ABAB cDEDED ABbeAB beAB ABAB XcFDFDXABABaBAB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,6,6,4,4,15,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011110 11101 111011110 111001 11011110 11101 111011110 111001 101100010 111001 010 111001 010 111001 111011110 11101 1 1 1011110 111001 1 1 1011110 11101 11011110 11101 111011110 11101 1 11100111 1101110 01 1101110 01 111011110 11101 111011110 11101 1111011110 11101 111011110 11101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 131
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (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; get, just are repeated.
The author used the same words too, just at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word heat at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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