This is an analysis of the poem In The White Giant's Thigh that begins with:
Through throats where many rivers meet, the curlews cry,
Under the conceiving moon, on the high chalk hill,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab c aca dXd Xeaea Xfg f ahahie ie jdjd kfk fglglg fgf d cdcggggXggXfbfXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,1,3,3,5,3,1,6,2,4,3,6,3,1,16,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 111101010101 100010110111 110111001101 110110101101 011111111101 11110101010101 100010110101 101111111101 101001010101 1101010101000 1101001001001 11101001011110 0010111001101 0011011101001 100101110101 111001010111 100101011110 10110111001101 111011000101 1111010010001 1111110100101 100100101001 10011000101 1011010010011 1111110101101 1100101011001 1100100101101 1111011110011 11001011100101 110111100101 0100101101001 0100101010111 110101100111 1001111010101 111100111111 1011110010001 1101100100101 111010101101 110100101011 11110111110001 1110110110111 1101110100101 111011110101 100101001001 1101110101011 010110111011 101111010101 1010010110101 110111010111 101010101111 1101111011001 101110110101 110110101100110 1101010110101 11011101101 111101000110 111000010101 111101010001 1110010010101 1010010111101
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 205
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 60
- Average number of symbols per line: 54 (very long strings)
- 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; in, of, and, their are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words in, and are repeated.
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