This is an analysis of the poem Liminary that begins with:

The hollow crystal of my winter dream
and silences, where thought for worship, white, ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdebebefefdgdghihifjfjbababebekkkkfdfddfdfjhjhdbdbkfkfebeblmlXjljlXfgfbnbnbbbbododoXobflflaoaoakakdjdjfpfpdmdmkoXobebeXqdqfafa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 132,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 0101001101 1100111101 1001010101 1001010101 0101010001 11010111001 11000010100 0101100101 1101010101 0100111111 1101010101 0011000101 0101010101 1101110101 0101110101 1101110101 0101000101 01011010101 1011010101 1100010101 01010011101 10101101101 1011111101 11010010101 1101110001 1101010111 110111111 11001110101 1110110101 1111011101 0110110101 01111111001 1011001101 11110100111 1011110101 100001111001 1111011101 10010010111 11110010101 1111010111 1111011001 1011010001 1111101111 10101010001 1101110101 1101010101 11111101001 1001101001 1111011101 1111110111 1101010101 0101110101 11000110111 0111110001 1011111101 0101000111 1111010101 11010101001 1101010111 11001010101 1101110101 0101001110 11110010101 1011110101 1111010111 1101010101 1101010101 11010100101 1101011001 0101010100 0101010101 0101010101 010010101010 1001011101 0101010101 10011010101 1001010101 1101000101 1101010111 0111000101 11001100101 01010101011 11010001001 01011011101 11110101000 1011011101 110110010101 1101010101 0101001100 1000110100 1001110100 01010010101 10010101011 1101101001 1100011101 01010010100 0101100101 1101010101 010001001 10010101001 00101010101 1001010101 0101010101 1001110111 1111101101 11110000101 1101110101 011110101 0101010111 01000110101 1101010001 0011100111 1101010101 10011000101 1001010101 0101010111 11010100100 1100010101 1100100100100 01011110001 0101110111 0101111101 1100010001 1001010101 11010101000 1101110101 01010010101 0101010001 1011111100 0101010101 1101010101 01001001101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 5858
  • Average number of words per stanza: 1013
  • Amount of lines: 132
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; of, her, me, thy, their, that are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the, our are repeated.

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