This is an analysis of the poem The Voice Of Robert Desnos that begins with:
So like a flower and a current of air
the flow of water fleeting shadows...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdXbefbbbddbbgbdbhIIIghejdXkeeajckdljblfgbjjjdjfbXjedXbjljX caX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 61,3,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101001 010101011 011111010010 111001110010 00011110010100110110 110111001 11001111 10110101110100110 110101101 11101 101 11 110100101010101 0101001001 1110111 11010101 11100011010 111010110101 010 1101 110111 110111 110111 010011010101110111 01010101011 0100101011 11001110101 01100101111 01111110010 0101101011001 101010111010010 0101001101010010 111101 1101 01011010 01001011 1010001001011 11111 11000100101 1110100001 0101101111 011111111010 1101 010010110010 1010101011 101001111 111111011001 1010011 0101011011011 0101001010 0100001001011 10111011011101 001011 0100101010 0111 0111 010110111 011011010001 010111010 001011 110111 011101100 0111111 01111110
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1170
- Average number of words per stanza: 221
- Amount of lines: 64
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; i, smoke, of, and, call, one, love, me, invoke, not are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, i, and, invoke are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines love, me are repeated).
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