This is an analysis of the poem Thought that begins with:

Thought, I love thought.
But not the juggling and twisting of already existent ideas... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXbbXXaX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111 1101001100010010010 101110101 100101001100100 1001001010110100 10101001011101101 101001001001100010 1010111101101010 1001001010010
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 503
  • Average number of words per stanza: 86
  • Amount of lines: 9
  • Average number of symbols per line: 55 (very long strings)
  • 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; thought, of are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word thought is repeated.

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

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