This is an analysis of the poem Heart And Mind that begins with:
SAID the Lion to the Lioness-'When you are amber dust,-
No more a raging fire like the heat of the Sun...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababXcX XbXca ccdX bdXbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,5,4,5,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 10100010111101 1101010101001 110111 010101000010111 01000110101 0100110011 10100110110111110 1010010010101 11110100101001 0101111100 101010001011001 1111110001 1100111111101 11011010001 101001011101 010101 101001111101011 11011011010110011 01010001101 1101101 00100011010001010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 254
- Average number of words per stanza: 52
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, that are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word no is repeated.
The author used the same word said at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Heart And Mind;
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