Chance Meetings by Conrad Potter Aiken: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Chance Meetings that begins with:

In the mazes of loitering people, the watchful and furtive,
The shadows of tree-trunks and shadows of leaves,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: Xaab bcXX XaXc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0010010010010110 01101111101 0010011010110 110011 11101101001001 110010011010 111111111111 111110 1101101111111111 101101111101 1010110111111 0011010
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 184
  • Average number of words per stanza: 36
  • Amount of lines: 12
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, they, you, and, i are repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines you is repeated).

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  • summary of Chance Meetings;
  • central theme;
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