This is an analysis of the poem Sentences (Phrases) that begins with:
When the world is reduced to a single dark wood
for our four eyes' astonishment,-- a beach for two ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcb bXdd ebb fgcXh aXXci iXej ghc jXg jeXfgiace
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,5,5,4,3,3,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101001001011 111101000111 101001001 1111001111 110101 10101110 11001 00100100110111 11110111100 110011111 11111101 111101111 101111101 111101111101 11011 11101110010 111101101 101101101010 11111000 11001010100111 11000101 110110001010101101 1100101101 11101010010101 0100011001110111010 1111010010 10010010 1010101111 0101101000 1101010111 11001001 110101010100100 01010101001 010010101001 011011110 1100100001 1111111 1101101010 11111011
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 167
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 39
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; for, i, of, to, from are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words should, an, what, i are repeated.
The author used the same word should 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 you is repeated).
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