This is an analysis of the poem Ad Finum that begins with:
On the white throat of useless passion
That scorched my soul with its burning breath ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efef gbgX ahai eXeX jhjhccXc iaia kaka
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,8,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101101010 111100101 11110010010 1100100101 1111111010 011111101 11111111110 110100111 1101110110 010011111 11111101010 1101100111 0111111110 011100101 11101011100 11101111 1111111110 0011100101 11101011010 110100100 11001101010 011110101 1100011110 110001111 1100111110 0100100101 11111011010 10110111 1110101010 110110111 1111111100 011110101 011110101010 10101111 1110101010 010101101 010111010 11111101 11011111110 011100111
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 182
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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, it, my, or are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, and, to are repeated.
The author used the same word for at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase it connects the lines.
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