This is an analysis of the poem Attack Of The Squash People that begins with:

And thus the people every year
in the valley of humid July ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXabcdeddda fgXcbgX hdbbdadabg faXhd XeaXaaaXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,7,10,5,9,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110101001 001001001 010101 0011101 111111 110111 0111010 100101010 010110 10101100 0110010100 01010011 10101110 01010100 101011 1011010 1110 101101 1101111 110111 1111001 00011001 1011110 001111 01010111 110111 1101011010 1011011 1101101 00101010 01010110 110001000 110010001 00101010 1101110 110111 10101111 111101 101101 1011111 11111110 1011001
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 259
  • Average number of words per stanza: 43
  • Amount of lines: 42
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, eat are repeated.

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  • summary of Attack Of The Squash People;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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