This is an analysis of the poem Incoming Insults (Signs Kept Swept Away) that begins with:
Sitting to await,
The 'next' tragedy to be announced....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabcdefbghXhai haaXajecidadadhXga e HHdcaeahhXefdef jhi HHXXddeXhe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,18,1,15,3,10,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10001 011000001 0011101 111010 0111010100 10101 0101011101 101001 1101000110 0111010001 10101011101 110010010001 001011110010 1001101011001 1010111100 1010111 0111011111 10101111 101110001 0111001101 0010101010 111011100100 11010111 01011100 1110100101001 10110100 101 1100011010 0010101 0010001 1111010 1010001 1110101011 10001 11001 10101000110 01000 11011101001 100010101001 01001100001 010111001 01011 11001 0001000010 1100111011 110110 001101001001 110001010001 11010 11010010 1110111 10001 11001 101110 101 10111010 0110 10100010 011100 0001110 0101000010
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 330
- Average number of words per stanza: 52
- Amount of lines: 61
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- 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, and are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines insults is repeated).
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