This is an analysis of the poem Death Fugue that begins with:
Black milk of daybreak we drink it at sundown
we drink it at noon in the morning we drink it at night...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbcDDabebXXd BbaFDDebgc fhgfhd BfaFBdijaeac BjXfffBaegj bX Xi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,10,6,12,11,2,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011110111 11011001011011 110110 11010010111101 011001110010 11 111110100110 1101 110111011011 10110011 1100110110110 1 101111101 1101111111 1110010111111 11 111111 011001110010 11 1111101001101 101 110110011010010 111101 1111100001111 101111 1110100011100 111 110110111101 1101 1101111111 1111110010111 111 111111 0110011101101 1101100110010 1111101110010 0100 11111011111 11101001 10110100111 1101 1101111111 11111100100100 1111111001011 1111 1001001000111 111010100101 0110011101101 1101101111010 01 11001011110 0100100 1101101 1101100 010110100
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 302
- Average number of words per stanza: 59
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; we, drink, it, at, he, out, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words we, he, your are repeated.
The author used the same word black at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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