This is an analysis of the poem Sonnets 05: Once More Into My Arid Days Like Dew that begins with:
Once more into my arid days like dew,
Like wind from an oasis, or the sound...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacdcdcd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1100110111 1101010101 01110100101 01001000101 1001111101 1101010111 1100111101 0110111101 1101110011 1111010101 1111111111 1101000101 1000110101 11110010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 580
- Average number of words per stanza: 109
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- 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; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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