This is an analysis of the poem The Negatives that begins with:
On March 1, 1958, four deserters from the French Army of North Africa,
August Rein, Henri Bruette, Jack Dauville, & Thomas Delain, robbed a ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabXc de fgfghibi jjjjklkl bmemdddn Xg fbfbjcoc kedXjcjp gqoqbmbm fmfppcpc Xa Xgfhrrbae oecobjgpi ppjpopfpf phphhllhh bhbjjceec Xd bgbXbnbpkckpigciXbbbbgkdkdbdbcpppe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,2,8,8,8,2,8,8,8,8,2,9,9,9,9,9,2,34,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111000011001100 1011111101101010 10011011000100100 01001001010101110 1100101010010010111 101 00111110 1100111 1011001 0111001 0111010 0111110 0110101 1110011 1110111 1101011 1010101 1110101 0010101 11111010 1111101 0111001 1101011 1000101 11101011 10010100 1010011 1001010 1111111 1011011 0111110 111 00110001 1010100 1110111 1011110 1101001 1011011 0111111 01001010 1110101 1101110 1011100 1101100 10100 101101 0111111 0101111 1101001 1111110 0111011 1010100 1111101 1100001 0001111 111101 1101001 1000100 0111011 0111010 1111111 1100110 1111011 1110011 11110001 110 0001010100 010011 1011101 1101 0111110 1101101 1011101 1101 1111110 1111010 1101011 1001110 1101 11010010 1101001 0101011 1110 0101010 0100101 1010001 1001110 1101 0100111 0001010 101111 1100 01111011 1010101 0100110 10010101 11011 10100111 101001 1011111 1111 1110110 1101111 1011111 0100110 1011 011011 0101111 0110011 1100 1100110 111111 1010 001011010 11100101 1101010 0101111 0101001 1101111 0010110 1011011 1010101 1001001 1110111 1011001 1110111 0101011 1101111 1101101 1111111 1001001 10011111 11100001 101011 0110110 1111011 1110010 110001 0111001 1101101 0101010 0010111 1010111 1001111 1000101 1011101 1000100
- Amount of stanzas: 19
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 285
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 147
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; dauville, of, i, my, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words from, by are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines more is repeated).
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