This is an analysis of the poem Deeply Morbid that begins with:

Deeply morbid deeply morbid was the girl who typed the letters
Always out of office hours running with her social betters...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbcc deeFbaF aaXbFf agXgff fhfh biXdXX jekcecFCF eXjgCF figXcF kffllkkkFXkkffdd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,7,6,6,4,6,9,6,6,16,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1010101010111010 1110101010001010 1111101000101010 1101110010101010 01110101 1001110111 10111111 10101010 1111101000100100 101101 01011010 11111010 101 01101010 01101010 10101010 10100010 101101 0101011101 10101010 1010111 10111010 1000101 110101 110111 10101010 1010100 001010 1110100 10101010 1010101 00101111 10100101 111000111000 1010101010 11100010 00101110 10101010 1110101 10101010 1000101 101101 101101 101 10101010 010010000 10100010 1011101 101101 101 01111100 01100101 11111011 1111110000 101101 101 1111 0111 11110101 11010101 11111101 101 101 0010101 101 111101011100 11010101100 11110101 01110011 11111101 11111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 11
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 199
  • Average number of words per stanza: 38
  • Amount of lines: 71
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; her, office, all, alone, happy are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words will, all are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines her, it are repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word alone at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of Deeply Morbid;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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