This is an analysis of the poem Holy that begins with:
Whitman felt his ribs and found the fat holy.
Poor mad Smart found Geoffrey the cat holy. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aa Xa ba ba Xa ca cX ba Xa Xa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101110110 1111100110 101110111 0101010110110 01111101010 1111111110110 11110100110 011001110110 11000111010 10101110110 1111110101 1101011010110 1101110101 01101011010111100 1101011010011 111101110110 0111110101 1111111110 1011011110110 11101000100110
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 93
- Average number of words per stanza: 18
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; holy, found are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word a is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines holy is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word holy at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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