This is an analysis of the poem What Do The Futures Speak Of? that begins with:
IN ANSWER TO A QUESTION IN THE GREEK GRAMMAR
They speak of never-withering shades,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X abXXaaaa bacadbebXbcbaede
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,8,16,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010001000110 110101001 11001001 11010101 110111 11010101 011101 11010101 010001 11010001 110001 11010101 011101 01010001 110011 11010111 110101 0100101001 011111 01010111 010111 10010101 111111 1100101001 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 264
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; of is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, in are repeated.
The author used the same word they at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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