This is an analysis of the poem Pigs that begins with:
Us all sore cement was we.
Not warmed then with glares. Not glutting mush...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXXXaXXXbXXXcbXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 17,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110111 111011101 101101010 11110101110 110111111 11101001001 1110111110 0110111011 1110101010 110011011110 10110110110 111110110011 0110111001 11011101111 101001101101 0110100101010 10110111111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 767
- Average number of words per stanza: 140
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; us is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word us is repeated.
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