This is an analysis of the poem Spooky Is A Truth Too Cruel that begins with:
Ravished.
By realities haunting me....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XAXbCC DCECFCXCBbC GEGEXe XXAXXCC DCECFCBbCC GEGEee XXXcXXC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,11,6,7,10,6,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100 10100101 010100 1 10001110 10001110 1111011 10001110 10111110 10001110 110111 10001110 1111010 10001110 1101 1 10001110 111001 1110111001 111001 011010101 111101010 11000100101 100 1 10100101 010100 1 10001110 10001110 1111011 10001110 10111110 10001110 110111 10001110 1101 1 10001110 10001110 111001 1110111001 111001 011010101 111110 110001001001 0100 11101101011 0100 110001110 010100 11 10001110
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 193
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 53
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (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; spooky, truth, too, cruel, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word spooky is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines cruel is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word cruel at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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