This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet : To Eva that begins with:
All right, let's say you could take a skull and break it
The way you'd crack a clock; you'd crush the bone...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cbcb dcdc cX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,2,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
- Metre: 111111101110 0111011101 01110101010 01001010111 01010011100 01010100010 111010101 11010101010 11110011010 0101010001 01110101010 011011101 01001111101 01010010110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 149
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; and is repeated.
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