This is an analysis of the poem Scenes Of The Mind that begins with:

I have run where festival was loud
With drum and brass among the crowd...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccddbbeeeefXggbbbbaaggaaaaXbhhaaiXjjggXfkkaaXiffXa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 54,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111110011 01110101 01010011 01010001 11011101 01000111 00101101010 111111010 010101101 00110000101 11001101 01011001 11010101 11010101 110111 01011100 111101001 11011110 10101011 11010101 10010111 01111101 111011101 11011101 0100100001 11000100 01011011 10110111 1100100111 11010101 0101011000 11110101 01011101 11011101 10010101 011111001 10111111 111100100 01010101 10111101 11011111 011010001 110101000 00010111 110101001 11011111 10010101 11010101 010111001 01000111 11011111 01010111 011101110 01011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 2039
  • Average number of words per stanza: 337
  • Amount of lines: 54
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, in are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase far connects the lines.

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  • summary of Scenes Of The Mind;
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