This is an analysis of the poem Blood Oranges that begins with:
In 1936, a child
in Hitler's Germany,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaXXXbXXaccbacbXbXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 22,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101 010100 1011010101 10101010 1011100 1001010010 111101010 111111110 100110101 11101 01100101 111110 10101001001 10011011 1010110 1111 11110010 10111010 010111 1001101 10110011 010011011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 657
- Average number of words per stanza: 126
- Amount of lines: 22
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; in is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word in is repeated.
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