This is an analysis of the poem It's A Queer Time that begins with:
It's hard to know if you're alive or dead
When steel and fire go roaring through your head. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aa bbcddecE XXbffebE ccXggedE hhfccefE
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0101010111 11110110111 1101010111 0101011101 0111111111 1101111111 0101010111 0101010111 1101111011 0011 1101010101 1111011111 1111111111 1111010101 0011000101 1101110101 1100110101 0011 1101010111 0110111101 110010100110 1011010101 1001110101 1001001101 1001111001 0011 0100110111 1101010111 1101011101 1001011101 0101011101 010010101 0101101101 0011
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 289
- Average number of words per stanza: 52
- Amount of lines: 37
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word time at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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