Death And The Powers: A Robot Pageant by Robert Pinsky: poem analysis

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  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,15,1,1,5,5,6,3,4,5,4,5,3,4,1,3,4,4,1,2,3,1,1,4,2,2,3,7,5,7,1,4,1,3,3,2,3,2,10,3,2,3,2,2,1,5,2,3,2,3,1,2,2,1,3,4,3,2,2,8,2,2,2,3,3,5,9,9,2,1,6,3,2,3,4,2,7,5,2,3,2,3,4,1,2,3,2,2,1,1,2,1,1,12,11,11,17,1,1,7,2,4,4,4,4,2,1,2,2,3,1,3,3,3,5,3,5,3,3,3,3,2,2,1,1
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
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  • Amount of stanzas: 422
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 95
  • Average number of words per stanza: 14
  • Amount of lines: 1209
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; robot, of, and, in, what, his, da, that, time, my, i'm, be, simon, matter, i, over, as, name, who, call, it, some, to, you, remember, enough, it's, more, yes, all, he, they, god, we, men, their, nurse, young, united, flesh, blood, jump, she, us, meat, no, body are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words robot, the, , what, we, or, and, maybe, miranda, it, skin, how, i, as, not, only, a, some, by, my, simon, it's, they, he, evvy, send, der, man, da, nicholas, do, you, something, she, our, meat, no, away, because, why are repeated.

    The author used the same words robot, maybe, it's, how, the, my, i, and, you, can, we 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 , simon, bird, frightened, machine, time, matter, right, you, house, ware, enough, more, that, yes, listen, nicholas, away, light, blood, off, fall, touch are repeated).

    The poet repeated the same words simon, machine, same, meat, me, place, more, control, selfish, dead, rest at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases , enough, more, nicholas, all, meat, body connect the lines.

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