This is an analysis of the poem A Display Of Mackerel that begins with:
They lie in parallel rows,
on ice, head to tail, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXaXa cXd dXe fgX ghc abi iXj aai XeX Xak idc Xkk jXc fdj bba ghkXj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101011 11101 101010000 1011 101010 10010 1101 0010010 1010100 10011010 010100 10001101 111101 10110 11010101 0100010 10010 0010010001 1101010 0011 1001010 01010 1001010 10011010 1010000100 1100010 11100 00101000 10101 010010 0111100 111101 010000101 010111 001010 100001 0011001 1000100100 100001011 110010 1010010 11111 11010 110100 110111010 1111 01001 101001011 01110100 11001011011 10110001010 1001010
- Amount of stanzas: 17
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 78
- Average number of words per stanza: 13
- Amount of lines: 52
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, be, all are repeated.
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