This is an analysis of the poem They Sucker Punch that begins with:
I am tired of boxing cocky foxes,
With their sweetened smiles and greased tongues....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AABCdadX EDEDEFF EDEDEFF cXEDEDEFFXAABCdEDEDEFF
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,7,7,22,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11100101010 01101111 01010011001 0010011111 11001000101 0101001 1011011011 01101 1101 0010101 1101 10010101 1101 01010101 0010001001101 1101 0010101 1101 10010101 1101 01010101 0010001001101 1101010111 01111111101 1101 0010101 1101 10010101 1101 01010101 0010001001101 11100101010 01101111 01010011001 0010011111 101101 1101 0010101 1101 10010101 1101 01010101 0010001001101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 279
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 43
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; with, to, and are repeated.
The author used the same word they at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word do at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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