This is an analysis of the poem Sustain that begins with:
1.
My love plays piano and his foot hovers above the pedal....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXabcdefgX Xhijki XfjXelchcXlke Xaeem m e Xheeikegkek Xmmagka hiejX Xiicafkibiidkiikh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,6,13,5,1,1,11,7,5,17,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 1110101011001010 011101011 101011001001 10101100001110 10100110100 010101 11101011 111001010101 01100100010100 1 01110 11010001 01001111010100 0101011 0110101 1 111 0110101 01010101 101011110101 1110111010110 010111 1110101110 111010111 10001001011011 10101101 11101110101110 10110101 1 1001 1011010 100100 11101 111011 110101111001010 1 11011111001001010 1111011101111 110100001011 1101100010 101111 010111111100 1001101101 101101001 1010111010 011011101010101 1 111111001 000101001001 1011111 01011111 101111 10111011101 1010010 111110 001110100 11010010110 101111010110 1 111010 0011001010 101110101 100101 1111 110100101 11111 110111101 0101011 10010101100 11001011110 01100111 111101 10111110101 10010 101101010110
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 264
- Average number of words per stanza: 50
- Amount of lines: 77
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; love, our, or, through are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, our are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines shock is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word shock at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Sustain;
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