This is an analysis of the poem The Early Purges that begins with:
I was six when I first saw kittens drown.
Dan Taggart pitched them, 'the scraggy wee shits',...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXb aXa bXb cdc Xde eae aXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111111101 1101011011 0001001101 11101111101 1110101101 001101010 10001010111 111110111110 0110101011 10010111101 10110011001 1101111101 01101010111 1111111011 10010011111 1100101100 1111111001 111101011 10001011101 1101010100 11111110011
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 135
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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