This is an analysis of the poem Wirers that begins with:
‘Pass it along, the wiring party’s going out’—
And yawning sentries mumble, ‘Wirers going out.’ ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb cdcXdb eeb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,6,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100101010101 110101010101 10001010010101 110101110011 011101111101 111111010101 11011010011101 01110 10101001 11000101110010 1111011111001 1011001111101 11110111001010
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 224
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 13
- Average number of symbols per line: 51 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines out is repeated).
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