This is an analysis of the poem The Spectral Attitudes that begins with:
I attach no importance to life
I pin not the least of life's butterflies to importance...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaccXbdbeXccfXghdXdXdigddhbjdkiiekeXc ekchgbXfccckceedkgjeXcdcedcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 38,28,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101101001 11101011010010 1111001 1010010110 101110 1011000 11110111 11011111 0111111111 10101010011 011001 101110101010111 0001001001101 010101111 010011111111010 01111111110 111010111111 111101111110110010110010101 010111001100 01010111001010 1110101 1100100000101 001100101100100 1111111010 11 1101011011111110 011101001 1101010110 1110111110101 111101001101101 001001100100100 011110010101110 11101101101110 011001001 101010010001 100100010101 100110 010101 010111001 1001001011001 011010 1010101 101110 01001011101011 01111010101101 11101001111101 110101 0101 101000111 11001001010010 1101111001000 10110101001 01101010110101 10101111 1110110 11010001000010 1110101001110 01110001 10100010010110010101101 0010110101110 101101010111 1111011101011 11010101111 10111111010 101111001101101 1011110011011010
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1514
- Average number of words per stanza: 291
- Amount of lines: 66
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, to, of, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, a, the are repeated.
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