This is an analysis of the poem Doomsday that begins with:
Doomsday
The idiot bird leaps out and drunken leans...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XAbXabA abX abA abX abAX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,3,3,3,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11 01001111101 0101010101 01001010110 1101010111 1101010101 01001111101 111010101 10101010111 01001010110 101110101 1101010101 01001111101 0101110101 1101010101 01001010110 1101011101 11010101001 01001111101 01001010110
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 161
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, too are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word thirteens at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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