This is an analysis of the poem Searching that begins with:
These quiet Autumn days,
My soul, like Noah's dove, on airy wings... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaa abca ddXd ceeb fddf ghhg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110101 1111011101 1111010101 010101 010101 0101000101 1101010100 110101 101101 1111101101 1101010110 010101 100100 1111000101 0101011011 010111 111111 1101111001 100110100101 010101 110101 1001010101 1111110101 111111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 141
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
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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- summary of Searching;
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