This is an analysis of the poem Monotones that begins with:
Because there is but one truth;
Because there is but one banner;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcabc cdecde fggfgg hgahXa ijaija kXfkffXegjegj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,13,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0110111 01101110 0110111 01110111 11111110 0101101 0111111 101101010 1101101 101001101 1110010 111011 01001101 1110111010 01111101 11110001 11001010 1110101 1011011 0010010010 001101011 111101 10111110 111011 10111101 001001110 111001 111001 001001110 00100111 1111111 0010011000 001001011 1010001011 111010010 1101101 1111111 11111110 1100111 10100111 101111110 101001011
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 215
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; because, there, but, one, and, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words because, whose, to, one, till are repeated.
The author used the same word because at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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