This is an analysis of the poem To One In Allienation that begins with:
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Last night I saw you decked to meet... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbccddbbee aaaXffdddX ggbbeeaahhXiiii hihi Jbjb Jkjk
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,10,15,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 11111101 0100110101 01010111 1111101011 01110111 00110011 0111010101 110100101 1101010101 1101 1011111111 11111101 1001011111 01110100 1001011111 11010101 11111001 0111100100 0101110001 11110001000 1001110101 0110010101 01110111 100111 101101001 0110001 0100110101 1111011101 1101111101 1101010101 1 11110101 11010101110 0100101001 011111010 01111101 1101111111 11111111 11111001 11100101 01110001001 110110111 110101101 11100101 0101010101 11110111 11010111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 276
- Average number of words per stanza: 54
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, that, i, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, so, of, to are repeated.
The author used the same word for at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase awake connects the lines.
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