This is an analysis of the poem Sword Blades And Poppy Seed that begins with:

A drifting, April, twilight sky,
A wind which blew the puddles dry,... full text

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  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 33,37,68,102,177,32,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
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  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 2745
  • Average number of words per stanza: 512
  • Amount of lines: 449
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, where, and, of, ', from, with, or, you, your, their, my are repeated.

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

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

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