This is an analysis of the poem A Vision Of Doom that begins with:

I stood upon a hill. The setting sun
Was crimson with a curse and a portent,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aBCCDaEFGEchgijehcgfaicXaakjfbhckXccXcffbchkkccXlcaaggibbXbalcXiceachilceX XaBCCDaEFGEafc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 74,14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1101010101 1100011010 1101011101 1101110101 1001011101 0111001101 1110010101 0101110001 0101010101 11001010001 0101001101 1101011101 11001111101 1101110001 0100110011 1101010001 1101111111 1101111101 0101011111 1111010101 0101010001 0101011101 1101111101 1101000101 1111110101 0100100001 0110010111 1001010101 1101011111 0100110001 1001100101 1100010001 1110001111 0110010101 11011111 1111010101 0101010100 1100010001 1101111101 0101100101 0101010111 1101010101 01001011101 0101010101 10101011101 1111010111 1101101101 10010001010 1101010101 0101010001 1001011011 1001010001 1100010111 1101010011 0101011101 00101000101 1110010101 1111010101 1001010101 1111000111 0101011011 1111010101 11001111101 1011010101 0011011101 01010110101 1001001111 0100011101 1111001101 0101010101 1100010101 0111000101 0101010101 100 10100100 0101000101 1100011010 1101011101 1101110101 1001011101 0111000101 1110010101 0101110001 0101010101 11001010001 1101110101 1100110111 1111110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1802
  • Average number of words per stanza: 331
  • Amount of lines: 88
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; and, in, as, thou are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words that, the are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines there, ' are repeated).

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