This is an analysis of the poem One Morning that begins with:
Looking for distinctive stones, I found the dead otter
rotting by the tideline, and carried all day the scent of this savage...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXXXXbba cacXXXXXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010101110110 101010011011010010 100011111010001 110010101 1010011011000001 1010110101100100 100101010101 110100010101 0101101010101010 0101010110100101 1101010010111010 011011111 0110101010001101 10110110110101 10101110110 11001010111010100 1101100101010011 111111101101010
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 501
- Average number of words per stanza: 88
- Amount of lines: 18
- 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; and is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word water at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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