This is an analysis of the poem Postman Cheval that begins with:
We are the birds always charmed by you from the top of these belvederes
And that each night form a blossoming branch between your shoulders and...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXabccddbabbcebcfXXeefcaXdX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 27,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 110111111001011000 111110100101110101011010110 11111011111 110100111110011011111 110101001 111101010101001 110101010001 10101111111001 01101010100110110101 0100101010001010 010101011011 1111101010100 11101111101 101010111010101001010 110101001001011 01111011 0100111001010000101 00100101001011100 010111100100101 11001010101101010111 101101101101101 10101001 011011101001111 1111111101 11100100110 100101111011001011 101011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1645
- Average number of words per stanza: 299
- Amount of lines: 27
- Average number of symbols per line: 60 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; we, of, your, you, it, to, drawers are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words it, drawers are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase drawers connects the lines.
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