This is an analysis of the poem Foul Shots: A Clinic that begins with:
for Paul Levitt Be perpendicular to the basket,
toes avid for the line. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ab bXXXcdaXd XXeXfabX gXfecegXXgXgXgb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,9,8,15,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11100101000010 110101 0100010 010000101 11011010 1000100 0011001 1101010 001000 101001101 101010101010 1011110 1101010 110110010 11000110 01110111 101001110 0100010110 01010010 11111 1001110100 111010100 1101010110 11111000 101110111 101111 100110100100 11110011 010101011 0101010000 00101010 10111111 001111 1011110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 284
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 34
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.
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