This is an analysis of the poem In A Time Of Dearth that begins with:
Before me,
On either side of me,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaBXBcdb cdefXXXbfaBbb fedebfddXdcBbb XcdXdfffXdbbbb gffXghBcbbXbfffbhbd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,13,14,14,19,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011 110101 111 011010011 111 11 111001 1 0111010101 1100100 010100110 101100 010100 11001 101100 10101 10010010 01010111101 111011 111 1 0111010101010 100 111111 1010110 110111 1101 111010111 11000111 1101001010 10110 11101111 111011 1111 1 011101001 1110010 011010 11011101010 0111010 110010101110 101011 10111 101011 111010100111 111011 111 101 1 00111101 1101110 100101101010 101001 1010011 1010111011011 111011 1101001 11101 1 1011101001001101 1010001010110010 110110 1101011101100 101 1111101101 1111 11101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 307
- Average number of words per stanza: 57
- Amount of lines: 67
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; their, and, it, sand, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
The author used the same word if at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase sand connects the lines.
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