This is an analysis of the poem Making It Work that begins with:
3-foot blue cannisters of nitro
along a conveyor belt, slow fish ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXabcXXdXXaecebXfcfd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 21,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111100010 010010111 10010010 1011011010 10001011 11011011 01111011 010011 1000101101 11111 011100101 11010010 01001110 11010111 1110110 101111 0111010 1011001 1110101 01010111 11010100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 707
- Average number of words per stanza: 126
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; of is repeated.
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