This is an analysis of the poem Pacemaker that begins with:
I
'One Snodgrass, two Snodgrass, three Snodgrass, four . . ....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X abac XcXc X dedb fXcc X XbccXfXffcfec
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,1,4,4,1,13,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1 1111111111 111110111010 11111111011 110110010010 1111111111 01010011001 01110111 1101100001 1 1110100111 0111110101 1110111111 1110101101 01111011101 01010111111 110011101 110111101 1 1111110100 1101010110 1111111101 0111011011 0010010001110 0111111001 1011101110 110111111 11100011011 1111011110 100111101 10111001
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 167
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 31
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (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; two, three, i, snodgrass, leff, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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