This is an analysis of the poem The Death Of The Ball Turret Gunner that begins with:

From my mother's sleep I fell into the State,
And I hunched in its belly till my wet fur froze....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 01101110001 111001011111 11001100101 11011101110 11111110010001
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 255
  • Average number of words per stanza: 52
  • Amount of lines: 5
  • Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 10
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; from, i are repeated.

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  • summary of The Death Of The Ball Turret Gunner;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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