This is an analysis of the poem Another Song that begins with:

Words go on travelling from voice
to voice while the phones are still ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcbdeeadbfgdeheibcjbihkjdgedjiXiXkf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 36,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11110001 0110111 101010011 11110110 101010110 111110001 1001101 11001010100 111101 011010010 11001101001 010011110 010100111 1101101 111000111 101001011 0101110001 111011101 1101011 10011011 00010100100 011110100 0111110011 010110010 10101011 0011111 011001010 101110101 110101110 01010111 111101111 11000101 11110101 11010101 100110110 1101001101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1280
  • Average number of words per stanza: 243
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; and, to are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, a, to are repeated.

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