This is an analysis of the poem All All And All The Dry Worlds Lever that begins with:
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All all and all the dry worlds lever,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X abXaba ccXaca X dedXeX bfaafa X dbddbdXbebded
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,6,6,1,6,6,1,13,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 111101110 100101010 100101010 1000101010 100111010 101101010 111111010 100101010 100101111 111101010 101101010 100101110 1 110101110 11010101 101001010 110101010 010110101 101001010 101101110 1101111 101101110 111101010 11011101 101001010 1 111101110 10010101 001001010 111001110 100100111 101101010 101001010 110100101 10100110 10010101 10110101 10101111
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 149
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 41
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; all is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word fear is repeated.
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