This is an analysis of the poem Night Of The Scorpion that begins with:
I remember the night my mother
was stung by a scorpion. Ten hours...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcd ecf bbf bbbgbg gXgdgXg gfe fgadXfXhXigfhafbi gXf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,3,3,6,7,3,17,3,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101001110 1110100110 01011101 01010101 1000101 010010011 110101 01011101 1101010101 01000101 0101010 101010011 10111 11111111 1111 0100101010010101010111 111111 101011001 01010111 1110001 0010011111 1010110 1000011 010100 01010111 101010111 001011100010 1111101 10101100010 0101010111 110110110 11110101 11010111 10101 110101000 101001110 10101110 1101010100 010101110100 1101101110 110101010101010010110 101010 0101 110101 110100111 11110
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 201
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 46
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; they, may, of, your, more are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words they, may, more, i are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines said is repeated).
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