This is an analysis of the poem The Bankrupt Peace-Maker that begins with:
I opened the ink-well and smoke filled the room.
The smoke formed the giant frog-cat of my doom.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbbbccddeXffgggXhhffggffbbggbbfXXiiicXeeeeffjjggddfX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 54,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11001111101 01101011011 01111011101 111011111101 11101011011 11111001111 101101001011 1011111011111 100110110 10011010110 10100111011 1110110110100 11001111011 1001001001 01001001011 01011011001 1001101110 0111011010010 1111111011 1001001101 1111010001 11101101011 1010010110101 1101000111011 1111111011001 00101111001 11011001001 01011111001 01011101111 111110001011 1101010001 11001011001 11011111101 011111000010 1111011101010 01111001001 0110111001 111001001011 11101111011 1110111010110 11001011101 110101111 101001111001 110011110111 11101011101 101001001011 101011001011 11111001001 101001001001 11111111011 101111101 01110101001 1100111111 101111100101000
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2593
- Average number of words per stanza: 490
- Amount of lines: 54
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; he, i, you, and, in, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words he, i are repeated.
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