This is an analysis of the poem Aside that begins with:
Mail-day, and over the world in a thousand drag-nets
The bundles of letters are dumped on the docks and beaches, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbabb ccccdd ecceff bbbbgg dggdhh eiiedd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1111001001011 01001011101110 11101001001010 01101110011010 111011110111110 01001011011110 101011010010110 01001101000111 10100101100111 01001010010010 11111001001001 001101001101111 101001011011101 1010101100100010 1010011011011010 101111111011101 01001001101101 11001001101001 101001001001001 11111101011001 101111001111101 101101111101001 101111011001101 111111011111011 111001101111001 101001001011001 111001001001011 111001001011001 111001001001101 101001001010001 101001111101001 01101101101111 11101001001011 01011001111101 011011001011001 101101101101101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 352
- Average number of words per stanza: 71
- Amount of lines: 41
- 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; and, of, we, our are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word may is repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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