This is an analysis of the poem The Green Piano that begins with:
Aeolian. Gratis. Great thunderer, half-ton infant of miracles
Torn free of charge from the universe by my mother's will. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abc Xad eaa fcf cXX cXX Xgh XXg bXe Xde hce cXa Xeb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010110011100100 11010010111100 111011101001 0101010011011000 01101101011011 1000101010111 01101010100101 11000111010011 110111111110 100110110100011 1101101011001 001011011110100 1010111101111 1111101110010 1101010101001000 110010111010101111 01110001011011 01111011000100011 1101111100101 0101110001111001 0101010100101011 1110100111011010 10110111101010011 0111101010101001 1001101111101001010 100110101101111000 1001110010110010 1001100100111101000 11001101111111011 10111001010100101 11101101101111101 0110100011101010101 11000101010100101010 1101000111000100 1101111111111010 1010100111111 00001011101110101000 011101111111001 11010111111100101
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 188
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 39
- Average number of symbols per line: 62 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, you, my, pink are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, they are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase pink connects the lines.
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- summary of The Green Piano;
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