This is an analysis of the poem All The Dead Dears that begins with:
Rigged poker -stiff on her back
With a granite grin...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXXXb cdeced afbabf dXbdbc gbXXXb caXXga
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 1101101 00101 0010101010 110001010 10001101 110010110101 110111 110 001101 11101101 110111 111100101 11111111 11001 010111 01111011 11101101 0101111001 0010011 101101000 1110110 111011001010 1011011 0101111001 1011101 1111 1001110 1010100101 10111 111110111 101010110011 011 110010111 1101100100 100101 11001011101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 195
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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