This is an analysis of the poem Bat's Ultrasound that begins with:
Sleeping-bagged in a duplex wing
with fleas, in rock-cleft or building...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabba Xbcac XccXX X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10100111 01011110 1111100101 111110101 01111101 1110111010 111011001 1010101101 1111010110 11010101 110110101 10111001101 111111101 1111101100 110111110 01111011
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 147
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, our are repeated.
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