This is an analysis of the poem Definition Of The Frontiers that begins with:

First there is the wind but not like the familiar wind but long and without lapses or falling away or surges of air as is usual but rather like the...

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  • Rhyme scheme: X a X a X X X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,1,1,1,1,1,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110011110010111101101100111001101001101001010001010101 010001011111001010001011110111010111001011111101011010010 1011010100111101 111101001111100100111011001110111110111100011110010100010110101011101111110110010111010101001010001001010010010 11100010010001001000101001010001001000101101110101 1001000100101111001001100101011010100110 11101
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 182
  • Average number of words per stanza: 35
  • Amount of lines: 7
  • Average number of symbols per line: 183 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 35
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of, or, but, like, there, taste, as, animals, odor, wind, time are repeated.

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