This is an analysis of the poem Bat that begins with:
IN broad daylight
He should not be:...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXCaXbadXbXdXCXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 17,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0111 1110 101110 10101 1101 10111001 010101 11110101 010110010 0101101 01110001 01110010 1101 101110 10101 01010 011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 439
- Average number of words per stanza: 79
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (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.
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 the is repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase froward connects the lines.
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