This is an analysis of the poem The Travelling Bear that begins with:
GRASS-BLADES push up between the cobblestones
And catch the sun on their flat sides ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabcXaXdXaAbXadXccXXXAb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 23,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111010101 11011111 1001 11100 00010101 1100101 110110 10011 010101 11101001 11110 1010110011 1001 10110110 11111010110100101 111100 0101010011 11110010 010011001 1011 101011101011 11110 010010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 754
- Average number of words per stanza: 135
- Amount of lines: 23
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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