This is an analysis of the poem It Sifts From Leaden Sieves that begins with:
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Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXaX bXXX XaXa XXXX bXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 01010100 010101 01010101 0100010 011101 0101010 01010001 1001100 01000100 010111 10010100 010101 01110010 0101010 10011100 100110 010101 1100010 1101000010 0101110
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 124
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; it, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word it is repeated.
The author used the same word it at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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