This is an analysis of the poem Re-Adjustment that begins with:
I thought there would be a grave beauty, a sunset splendour
In being the last of one's kind: a topmost moment as one watched ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXbcXX ccddabX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 11110011001110 0100101101010111 01110100100101 10010101011010 11111011101000100 0101111101000101 111111011101010110 010110111110010 11001000111111010 110110010111101010 0111111010010 1100110010101 1100100100101010 1010100110011101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 429
- Average number of words per stanza: 75
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 60 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; who is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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- summary of Re-Adjustment;
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