This is an analysis of the poem The Girl Who Giggles In The Choir that begins with:
Give me a club that I may kill
The tenor pert, the smirking basso; ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaXb cX C bd bd ec e C f ef Xg XgXC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,2,1,2,2,2,1,1,1,2,2,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11011111 010101010 11111111 010111111 11010101 111101110 011100101 011100010 01010101 01010101 11011101 11010101 11011101 110101010 01110101 011100010 111110111 110101010 110111011 011101100 111010101 11010101 11000111 011100010
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 63
- Average number of words per stanza: 13
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; i is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and 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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