This is an analysis of the poem Knocked.Senses.Knocked.Defenses.Stopped. that begins with:
Dropped to the rocks.
Swiftly without warning....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABXX cdddddceaXXXe ABXX eXaXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,13,4,5,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001 100110 1000 1000010 101001 11 010001 01001 110111 10011 011011 1011011 01 0001011 100100100 11111 0001101 1001 100110 1000 1000010 010001 011001 11001 100010 1
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 154
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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 knocked is repeated.
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