This is an analysis of the poem Red Dust that begins with:
This harpie with dry red curls
talked openly of her husband, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abccbdebXfXgX XgaeahbfafgXhXg bbfdafXfhaXfa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,15,13,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010111 11000010 01000101 00100111 0011011 0001010 11010001 0010111 111101 1110110 1010011 1111010 00101010 11101010 0010100 11101 001101 10110001 11110101 01110101 01010101 0101101 101110001 1101011 01101011 01011101 11010101 01010 11111001 01111101 11010011 01001001 11100101 0101111 0101100 11010011 11010111 111001010 1011111 1011110100 110
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 431
- Average number of words per stanza: 82
- Amount of lines: 41
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; death is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words of, the are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines death is repeated).
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