This is an analysis of the poem The Seed-At-Zero that begins with:
The seed-at-zero shall not storm
That town of ghosts, the trodden womb,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AaBCCbc AaBCCbc deedeed fDagGfa fDagGfa HiccAXiXHiccAhi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,7,7,15,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01110111 11010101 00100010 11010101 1010101 101010100 1001001 01110111 110101001 00100010 11010101 1010101 10101010 1001001 1010001 10111010 10101001 10010101 10101011 1110001 1010001 10101011 1010001 0101111 10110010 10101110 1110101 11101011 100101011 1010001 0101111 10110010 10101110 1110101 11101011 10101110 0010101 1110101 0011100 10100010 10100011 1101101 10101110 0011101 1010101 0011100 10100010 10100010 1001101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 214
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 49
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; seed, in are repeated.
The author used the same words the, may, man at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same words line, him, place at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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