This is an analysis of the poem The Poet And The Poem that begins with:
Upon the city called the Friends'
The light of waking spring... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbdb eeXeee cfgfef hgegdg aieiXi ddedad jkXkgk aghXXg khlhgh jeeeme jagfkf cjXjfj jclcfX nanaga doXoao deeeee mebede bfffef Xbfgfaf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,7,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 01010101 0101001 11010111 100101 00110111 011100 0100100111 0101001 11010101 010111 110101001 010101 01010101 101111 11010011 010111 01010101 011111 110011101 100101 11011111 010101 11010101 010101 01010001 010111 11010101 010111 110111101 101101 110100111 110101 10110111 010111 10010101 010101 01110111 111011 1101010 101101 01010101 110101 11111101 110101 00110111 0100010 11000101 010101 0110111 11001 11001101 1100101 11010111 011111 10110101 1110111 01110101 110101 01111100 111101 11010111 010111 11010001 1111111 111101101 101100 111111100 010111 10011100 0111101 011110101 111111 11011111 011101 11110001 110101 01011100 1010000 11000101 11001 11011111 010011 11001101 101111 01001101 1011010 01011101 00100010 10110101 0101010 11000101 010101 1101001 100101 101011111 111001 11011100 1001111 10011001 010101 100111001 11111 01100101 1110001 01010100 010111 110010111 111101 010101001 111101 101011111 110111 110010111 111100
- Amount of stanzas: 19
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 178
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 132
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, so, me, of, our are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, perhaps are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase half connects the lines.
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- summary of The Poet And The Poem;
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