This is an analysis of the poem Kisses And The Rhythmic Principle that begins with:
My dear ladies - that is to say, those of you who may happen inadvertently to glance through this dreadful paper
Most of you, no doubt, have felt... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcXddeeccffggaahiddeeaaddjjhi jjhhddXfeeddhhi XeX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 32,15,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110100110111101010001101010 101111101111101001010 1101011100101100100101101000100111011 1101000010101101111010101001 001111110110011101 11111010110101010100101110 110001100110011101011000 110111001011110010110 1101101111 110111010001 11011110001001010010101011101 00111101010001 111 100101 01010 1111110110100010 110010011010 10011010010 11101010111010010010001000111000001011 01001010010101001010000001011 111101101011110110 111101111000011010010 11010111000101001010101 10110101010001010010010001 11010011111011010 1101010010101010101101010 11001 00010001 010011110100100001000 1101110 110101001110100101011011 11101110010100000101010111010010100000001111 11110 100100010111110 0011001110110101011 11110101 010111010011 11010111 01011000011110 1110101100010101 0101011110100010100110101 0101101011101011110111111001 100101010010110101011011001 101010100101101001011 11110111100001011100011 101111 10011001000000101001000101011001000000011011 1111010110111001010110110100100001001111010010 101010010010011100101 11101110100100101000101010000
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1254
- Average number of words per stanza: 209
- Amount of lines: 52
- Average number of symbols per line: 71 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, to, i, object, and, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words but, for are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines you is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word tissue at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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