This is an analysis of the poem Beasts Bounding Through Time that begins with:
Van Gogh writing his brother for paints
Hemingway testing his shotgun...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbBXbBbcBddXEXbaEXbXaeXBbXdbacceae
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 35,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111001011 10110011 0110110100100 001010001010 100101011001 1010010001 001010001010 101001001 10100 001010001010 1001010011 1000110101001 1101001000010 0010100 1000010010101011 10101000111 10100011101 0010100 101010111 10010110 110100 100001100010110 00101000010100 1011001 001010001010 1110 010 011 110 11 110 1100 111010 10010101011 0100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1077
- Average number of words per stanza: 182
- Amount of lines: 35
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; these is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word these is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines human is repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase out connects the lines.
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