This is an analysis of the poem Truth Serum that begins with:
We made it from the ground-up corn in the old back pasture.
Pinched a scent of night jasmine billowing off the fence, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbXcdeebXacXdeXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 17,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11000111001110 1010110100101 1010 1111010110 111 10101001110 1011101111111 0101011 10011111 01001100101110 101010101010 0111110 1111001010 100110110110 01010011 111010010111101 1111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 735
- Average number of words per stanza: 130
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
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 we is repeated.
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