This is an analysis of the poem Flight Of Stairs that begins with:
Stairs fly as straight as hawks;
Or else in spirals, curve out of curve, pausing...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXabcX acXd Xdcba X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,4,5,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111 11010110110 101011101100 11101011 10100011 110010110110 01110 110000101 01010 0101 1001 100011100100 110001010 1110010010110111 110010 10010010 01011010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 146
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; their is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word their is repeated.
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