This is an analysis of the poem Discordants that begins with:
I. (Bread and Music)
Music I heard with you was more than music, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a abcb deXe fggg X cXcf agaX ggXc X cgeg chbh hidi X cggi abge Xegc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110 10110111110 1111011111 111101110100 1111110001 11110101010 1111110101 1111010110 1111010011 10101111010 1100111011 10111001011 1111110011 1 111011110101 0101001001110 111111111 1110101 111011110101 010100101010 01011010001 011101 110100101010 11001001001010 11001010110100 1100011 1 110101001010 1111010001 010111101010 0100011101 110101101010 1111010001 110111110 01110111101 11110101110 1111111011 110111111010 1011110001 1 00101 1010111001010 10111111111 1001110111 01111 00100101101110 10011101010 1001010111 11111 1101011111011 1011010011011 11010111001
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 138
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 53
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, you, bread, music, this, and, your, them, from are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same words my, dead 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 music is repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase music connects the lines.
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