This is an analysis of the poem Insomnia. Homer. Taut Canvas. that begins with:
Insomnia. Homer. Taut canvas.
Half the catalogue of ships is mine:...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaaX bbba XccX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010010110 101010101 11011111 1111010 011001101001 100110101 11111101 01001100110 0111011111 1111110010 101110001010100 110101110
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 222
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 58 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words that, and are repeated.
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