This is an analysis of the poem A Song And The Sultan that begins with:
It was no more than the description of a burst of rain
and handkerchiefs of lightning which burned the secret of trees— ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcccbcdXeccfgghccfXXhcAeacibgeXbAXabdehXXccecaefgbeXgbffii
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 59,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01111001000101 11000101101001 1101010 1111101000010 10010 10100011111101 101100 11100101010010 1011100101 101001001111010 101010 101100 111110001001 1101101010 11010 010110 1010010100010 111100010 11110010 11110001000101 111011100101 010110100 0010110111010110 111010 10110010101001 110011011 00101001010 101011010100101 1101 110100001010 1101010 1010101 10101001010011001 111010 1101000100011 111010001 1010001 1010011 1111111011 11010010 01111010 0101001 10010110110 1011101110 101001010 1100010 001010 01001 110010010 10100011010 1101 1111101001 10100101 11010010 111100101 1111111111 0010010 10101 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2222
- Average number of words per stanza: 418
- Amount of lines: 59
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, why, that, the are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines her, ', ember, roar are repeated).
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