This is an analysis of the poem Bag Of Mice that begins with:

I dreamt your suicide note
was scrawled in pencil on a brown paperbag,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbcXcbadXacd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111011 11010101100 0010110101 100010 100 001101 1010101001 0101111100 1010111010 01110 11010001 101101 110
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 393
  • Average number of words per stanza: 71
  • Amount of lines: 13
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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.

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  • summary of Bag Of Mice;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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