This is an analysis of the poem Blood Is But Blood! that begins with:
Repression is sill repression
Rising, it must flop...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbC ddcXBC Xcef cfgXee Xcadgbg aaabBfgXg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,6,4,6,7,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01001010 10011 1011 10011 10011101 1010101 11001101101 110001110101 1011 10011 110111011 1011011 010011010101 1111010101101 110011101 1101010 101010010 1010 0111001 0001001110111 01110010100 011111001 11101010101 11101 1011101 11001 011111 1001010 1000010 01001001010 001001 1011 10010101 11110100 1011110000 1011100100
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 190
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; on, or, blood, it, such, as are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words on, tell, it, what are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word clot at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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