This is an analysis of the poem White Fur that begins with:
In the town of my childhood, little of note ever happened
so when the albino deer was found drowned in the slough...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ab cd aX ec fa XX dX fX ff ecXfb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,5,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 001011110011010 1100111111001 1001010010111 01101011001 111010110101 101101011 11011010101 100101001001 00101001001001 11001001001 10010011110 001011011110 111001111111 1111111000011 001110010 11001000101 1100111001 1010110011001 10101111010 0100110100101 00101001000101 01101001001010001
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 99
- Average number of words per stanza: 19
- Amount of lines: 22
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; we, and, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
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