This is an analysis of the poem The Fat Old Couple Whirling Around that begins with:
The drum says that the night we die will be a long night.
It says the children have time to play. Tell the grownups ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aba cXX Xac aba Xab aaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0111011100011 0101011011011 111010010101 01110110110 011101010101 0101011001001 011001010101010 011001010111010 0000111011001 10101100101001 10100111001101 1011110010101 01100111010011 011011101011 01101101001001 10011010001011 0110100110101 0001010111101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 165
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 54 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, let, right, if, all, it's are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, it's, let are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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