This is an analysis of the poem The Song that begins with:
That day, in the slipping of torsos and straining flanks
on the bloodied ooze of fields plowed by the iron,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbbcacXDXeX X dDecbbXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,1,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1100100111101 101010111010 1011011110011 101101 101110010 11101010101 0101101 111 11010 1011111101 11001011 110100010 0100 110 11010 01000011110 101010 1010001 1010110001 10110110 111001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 224
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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