This is an analysis of the poem For An Earth-Landing that begins with:
the sky sinks its blue teeth
into the mountains....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xa b cde b faaag g dc dh ij jXba hk kel X ha ml dX bk aX dd ll l fiealmXk
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,1,3,1,5,1,2,2,2,4,2,3,1,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,1,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011011 00010 10110 0111 0101 00111 1010010 101 11011 011101 0101 1 11011 1010 1011 0101 0111 01 1101010 111010 11 11010 01010 1011001101 001010101 1011001 1100111 01001 11 10001 1011010 10 1101 11100 1110110 110001110 001010 101110 1001001 0100110 110 010 10101 10110 111 10101 1101 110011011 111 0010100010 10111
- Amount of stanzas: 23
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 46
- Average number of words per stanza: 8
- Amount of lines: 51
- Average number of symbols per line: 20 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, merely are repeated.
The author used the same words the, or at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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