This is an analysis of the poem Fame [one Thousand Years I Slept Beneath The Sod] that begins with:
One thousand years I slept beneath the sod,
My sleep in 1901 beginning,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbacacXdd XbebbfbfbbeX XXcaafgfgXXX ahahheaXaadX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,12,12,12,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1100110101 1101010 1101001101 11010101110 110111001010 1100111101 01010101110 1001010101 11110101010 11011111111 1111101101 1011011111 1010001110 01011110010 1111011101 01110101010 01110111010 0101001111 11010111110 1100111101 001010111010 10010101010 11011010111 100011010110 111110001100 011101100100 1001001101 11110001010 110010101010 1100010111 11010101110 1001001101 10010100010 11001100110 1110110011 0101010111 1111111101 11110101110 1101111111 11110001110 11010011010 1101011111 01000111010 0100011101 111101111010 01110101010 0001011001 1011011111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 517
- Average number of words per stanza: 96
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; in, and, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, but are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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