This is an analysis of the poem The Hanging Man that begins with:
By the roots of my hair some god got hold of me.
I sizzled in his blue volts like a desert prophet....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ab cbXac
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,5,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 101011111101 1100011101010 011101101011 0101110010010 01001011001 0101111110
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 95
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 6
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word a is repeated.
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