This is an analysis of the poem From: Time In The Rock that begins with:
XXIV
If one voice, not another, must speak first, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabXcdefghi jkaflmmn chdkkfjo jajkfmfmlffaefhjffknmfbm XpopaihfmkpfkmmaopjmbmXap njmeoglfnakba pglXpp XbakpqjqapXcbcmjljeqXmf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,8,8,24,25,13,6,23,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1 0111010111 100100100010 1010101010010 010100011001 101000101001011 10001111101 011101110101 10010100110 0111010001 0111001101 1001110110 10010111001 10011001010 10010101010 10011001001 1011010111 0111011111 01111111 0011011101 0111100101 1001010001 10001011111 11110110111 0111110111 1111101111 11100001010 1001010100 0101110111 1001110101 0111111101 010100100101 11111101010 10110111001 1111001111 010111 10110 1111010110 10111110001 1101000111 1001111111 1011011 110101 110111101 1101100111 1101011101 0101011111 0101010101 01011111010 100010111110 11111101001 1 010010111011 11010101010 0011010010010 110111101 0100111001001 0111101011 1111101101 111101101010 110110101 11011001010 001101011 1010101010110 0111010111 100010111 1010100100101 0101010100010 1011110111101 101101110110 0100010111010 001001010110 001000101001110 0110001010010 11101001011111 0101010 111 101011101 01010100100 1101001101 10110111110 10010101010 11011001011 01100100101 100111001 1001101100 0101110101 10101010110 01001011001 11110111110 110011100011 1100110010101 100101001100 010011001000 110101011110 1 111010110100 1110111110110 011001111 100001101000100 11101010110101 1001101010100 110010010010 11000111010 1001100101 1110101001011 0101111111 110001111011 0100100000101 111001010 11001101010100 1000111011 0111010100 0101010001111 10010100011 100101010100 01010111010 1100
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 652
- Average number of words per stanza: 116
- Amount of lines: 120
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; of, or, here, in, it, that, this, he, made, to, we, us, again, and, others, these, notice, how, little, what, your, s are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, here, this, these, or are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines gone is repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases made, us connect the lines.
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