This is an analysis of the poem Fugue Of Death that begins with:

Black milk of daybreak we drink it at nightfall
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: abbcDEBfXeXd BbaGDEBhic ifcieX abaGBd hJgffc BXjXgcgbgBhXhJ bX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,10,6,6,6,14,2,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11011110111 11011001011011 110110 1110010010010011 0100111001011 1110110100110 1101 1101100101101 10011 110011110010010 01 101111101 1101111111 1110010111111 11 11111 0100111001011 1110110100110 1101 110110011100100 100 10011 1111001111110 11111 111010001110111 01 1101111111011 1010 11011111111 1111100101111 11 11111 010011101101 1101100110010 111101101110 100100 11110011111 11001 11101001001001 1 1101111111 111111110100 100 1111111101111 11 0100100110111 1 001001101001101 1 010011101101 11110010011110 1 110010111110 100100 1101101 1101100
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 294
  • Average number of words per stanza: 59
  • Amount of lines: 56
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; it, we, drink, at, he, writes, you, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words we, 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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