This is an analysis of the poem The Star-Treader that begins with:
A voice cried to me in a dawn of dreams,
Saying, 'Make haste: the webs of death and birth...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaacXadaaeefaaX X ceecghgghafXaiieaaeXj X dXfXeejaXj X gcgdgggkgakahiaiiXiXXh c gXggejceedjXeeeaajjXeaeXe c gjjggglmmlXicXXclnnllmgmag X aXeeaeabb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 17,1,21,1,10,1,22,1,25,1,26,1,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0110100101 1011010111 1101110101 100101001 11011001 110101 101101100 1101 11110100 11110101 01100110011 101111 11001110101 01110101 01110100 1111010101 11001101100 1 11011111 111111010 01010101 01110001 01100101 11010101 11111111 10010111 01010111 11010101 11010101 01111110 0110101 10011101 11010101 01011101 011100101 01000100 01010111 1111110110 1111010001 1 10010100 111100010 011001101 01011000 110010111 11011111 011101 01111101 110101010 111111 1 11010101 01011101 11000101 11010100 10011101 01010101 11110001 10110001 11111101 11110101 10011 01110011 11110101 11110101 11011111 01011101 11111101 01010101 11110101 01010101000 011101010010 1100010 1 110100111 110101000 11010101 011001001 1101010100 0111010100 1111011101 1101011100 0111110101 1101010100 01011101001 11010110 10010101 11010101 01111101 11100010101 0101000101 101011 1001110101 0101110100 01100101 11011101 111111 01111100100 0101101 1 11011101 11010101 01110001 01010101 01010111 01001101 11110101 0110001 11111101 11110101 110111 11011111 1011011101 11010010 010110 1101100111 110101001 11100101 11001111 1011001001 11000100 01001101 010101 110111 10010001 01010001 1 111101001 110101 11111101 1101110001 11000101 11000101 01010101 1100010101 1101010001
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 360
- Average number of words per stanza: 64
- Amount of lines: 136
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
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 a is repeated.
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