This is an analysis of the poem The Tongue that begins with:
Inadvertently I passed the border of her teeth and swallowed
her agile tongue. It lives inside me now, like a Japanese fish. It...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbXbaXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010011010001110 01010101111010110 10011111101100101 0101000110010 11101001111011 11101 1111111011100 001011011101101 1101010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 465
- Average number of words per stanza: 92
- Amount of lines: 9
- Average number of symbols per line: 51 (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; it is repeated.
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