This is an analysis of the poem For Three Whose Reflex Was Yes that begins with:
Nobody I know is a god. A mother and son
fall into the river's million hands, the river's ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXcdXadeacfgbbefhXgghX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 23,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111100101011 100010101010 111111010100 1011101111 1100111110 0110010101 1010000101010010 100101001010 1110110101 101010010110 0101101010101 010111101110 111100010010101 01100110111 1110101101 110111010011 00100101101 1010010101110 1100111011 0010101101 01010111101 010110110010 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1133
- Average number of words per stanza: 200
- Amount of lines: 23
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, their are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, and are repeated.
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