This is an analysis of the poem Twelfth Song of Thunder that begins with:

The voice that beautifies the land!
The voice above,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: AXbaCA AXbXCA
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01110001 0101 01010 01011 0110101 01110001 01110001 0101 0100110 0101 0110101 01110001
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 160
  • Average number of words per stanza: 28
  • Amount of lines: 12
  • Average number of symbols per line: 26 (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; voice is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.

    The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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

    The poet repeated the same word land at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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