This is an analysis of the poem Sekhmet, The Lion-Headed Goddess Of War that begins with:
He was the sort of man
who wouldn't hurt a fly....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXbacddXcaeba adfghXhea iibadiibjfkh hhkh fXdckajadgh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,9,12,4,11,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110101 110101 1011101 1101 111110 1011100110 11110 1111010 001010 111111010 101010 10010010 10001010110 111 110101111 1111110 1101001 101100111 0010101101 1110111 110101 01011100 01010 1010101 01001 110100 01110101010 0110110 10111110 011100 110001 1111101 0011101 111011 1110 101100100 1110010 11101 110110 11110101 0111010 1010011110 0101 10010111 01010110 010100001 101100010 1111010 1111110101001 101100101101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 297
- Average number of words per stanza: 56
- Amount of lines: 50
- 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; i, me, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words he, in, and are repeated.
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