This is an analysis of the poem Gods In The Gutter that begins with:
I dreamed I saw three demi-gods who in a cafe sat,
And one was small and crapulous, and one was large and fat;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaa bbX ccX ddX ddd eee fff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111101100011 11111100111111 11110101110011 01110101111011 1101110010001 10001000011110100000 01010100110001 11110111010011 1010101010110100100 01110101010101 01010100010101 1000101011111101000 11101100110101 11011101110111 11000101110101 11001011110101 11010111110101 111001011010101 11111101110101 01010111010101 11110101011111
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 188
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 62 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, one, as, his, oh, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, oh are repeated.
The author used the same words the, oh at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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