This is an analysis of the poem Dunes that begins with:
What do we see here in the sand dunes of the white moon alone with our thoughts, Bill,
Alone with our dreams, Bill, soft as the women tying...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbcbca
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111100110011010111 01011111010101011110 0100101010101100100101 01111110111111001 10101110110100110 11111111010111111 110101011101011111111001111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 609
- Average number of words per stanza: 119
- Amount of lines: 7
- Average number of symbols per line: 86 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 17
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; alone, one, with, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word alone is repeated.
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