This is an analysis of the poem Latitudes Beneath Your Eyelids that begins with:
Is a draught that slakes. Those volumes
left me cross-eyed, condemned, naked...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbXccdXdcbeXdffaXgXeaXgbg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 26,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 001110110 11110110 10111111 111011011000 101101001110 1111101011 11001111010010 11010101011 01010101100010 110010011111 1010101101 101111111110 01101111 1100100101010 1101111010 10100101001 11110111 1100011000101 10101010011 11101101 111110100 1110100101 011110011 111111011 01101111 111101101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1092
- Average number of words per stanza: 199
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length 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; or is repeated.
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