This is an analysis of the poem Edmund Pollard that begins with:
I would I had thrust my hands of flesh
Into the disk-flowers bee-infested,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXbccdXbecfXadbfbeXaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 22,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111101 0001101010 0001011010 0010101001 111101110 110110011 00100100101 1011101 100101001 1100101010 101100101 1110100101 001010101110 011011101 111001111 111101111 110101001 11110101 110001011 1011111110 010101110 100111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 859
- Average number of words per stanza: 160
- Amount of lines: 22
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, you, nor are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words into, nor are repeated.
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