This is an analysis of the poem From The Frontier Of Writing that begins with:

The tightness and the nilness round that space
when the car stops in the road, the troops inspect ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aba XbX cXc bXb dXd ece fXf cdX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 0101010111 10110010101 01110111101 0111011101 1010110001 11011111010 11010101010 0101010111 01010111010 0101000101 1111110001 1010110100 11110001010 10100101111 01000111010 1001110101 010010101 1001011101 1100110111 10110010101 1011000111 11010100101 01010101010 11110001010
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 125
  • Average number of words per stanza: 22
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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, on are repeated.

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  • summary of From The Frontier Of Writing;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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