This is an analysis of the poem Ascension that begins with:
I have been down in the darkest water-
Deep, deep down where no light could pierce;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd efefgXgX Xhchadad hihijXjX ededcXcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101001010 11111111 01001111110 0101111011 11101011110 1110100101 11001011110 0101101101 1011011110 010100111 11001001110 1010101101 111111010011 100101101 1010010011101 1011111101 11111101100 1010111111 11101011010 00100111111 11111001010 0100101101 1101011010 1111000101 111011110110 110100101 01111001010 110101111 1111001010 1111001111 100101101110 1010111111 10101001010 1011101111 101101101010 110100101 1100111010 110101101 01001001010 1111011110
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 349
- Average number of words per stanza: 69
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; my, and, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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