This is an analysis of the poem A Dent that begins with:
In memory of Michael Allen
The height of one stall at odds with the next in your grandfather's byre ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X XaXa bXbX ccX bbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,3,3,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 010001010 0101111001011101 1100101011011 1110101111001 00100001101 01101101001 10011001111011 111101101111 1011010101 01001001011101 0010101 0101011 110001011 111010110001 11111111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 134
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.
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