This is an analysis of the poem Pow.Pow.Pow...Pow! ! that begins with:

An intoxicated greed made so intense,
A sobering to detox from it......

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcaddbea caXXeabcfX XXX bdf X cg X a eX g hX hX X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,10,3,3,1,2,1,1,2,1,2,2,1,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10101011101 010001100 001010000010 010001 1010101101 11100010 10100011001 010011101 101011010101 011101101100 101010010001 1100111111100 110011110001 100111011 0010010110101 1000101010101 011110101 10011110110 101111 1000 101111000101 0111001111 1010111 101111 111101010110 10001 1 101110111110 101 10 1111111 010010 110 110011 1010 1111101 110111 1101110
  • Amount of stanzas: 13
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 98
  • Average number of words per stanza: 18
  • Amount of lines: 38
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • 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, pow are repeated.

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  • central theme;
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