This is an analysis of the poem Flies that begins with:
I never kill a fly because
I think that what we have of laws...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaa bXbXcccc dedeffff ghghiaia fcfciXiX ijijicic ccXcbibi ibiXiaiX idiXjbjX kjkj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11010101 11111101 01011101 11011101 1011110101 00100101 10100111101 10100101 111110111 10100111 1111010101 0110101 1011101101 11110010 11101001 10101010 10101111 011111 110100101 1111101 101010111 100001 1110111101 1011111 10010101 10100111 10100101101 0101101 110010101 1111111 1101001011 1110101 11111101 011101 1010010111 0111110 110011101 111111 110010111 1010101 111010111 1011101 10010111 011111 111111111 1011111 10111001100 1110111 101011111 10101101 1100101101 0100111 10110111010 1100100 1111111110 00101010 110100101 1010101 1010100101 101111110 101011101 10111101 1110111101 11111110 11110101 1100111 10010101 1101100 11011101 01110101 11010100 111100111
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 257
- Average number of words per stanza: 50
- Amount of lines: 72
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; of, to, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, and are repeated.
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