This is an analysis of the poem Death Of A Cockroach that begins with:

I opened wide the bath-room door,
And all at once switched on the light,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababccdadaee fafXXX cgcgXX baXadd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11010111 11111101 11010101 11010101 11010011 01010111 11011101 11010101 11110101 111011101 11111101 01010101 111011111 11011101 11010111 110111110 10010001111 100001100 101010111 11000111 11110101 01010111 1010101011 1001110100 111011101 11011111 11010111 11110001 01010101 11110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 274
  • Average number of words per stanza: 51
  • Amount of lines: 30
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; it, i are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

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