This is an analysis of the poem Epitaph For The Earth that begins with:

Somewhere in Space the disunited dust
That formed a visible comparted world,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcXdceacXfgfbbhade XcaXahag
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 19,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1101010001 1101001001 1001010011 010100100100 01001001010 10101000101 010101000010 0111110101 010101 0111 0101010101 1111010001 01001011101 11010101110 1101010101 1101010111 0111100101 1111111001 0101010001 0101111001 10011010000 1111110111 01010100101 11011000101 1001111101 1101010011 01110100101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 553
  • Average number of words per stanza: 89
  • Amount of lines: 27
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; of, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word of is repeated.

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