This is an analysis of the poem For Claudia, Against Narrowness that begins with:
Narrowing life because of the fears,
narrowing it between the dust motes,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcabbdd ebefgbb gHiXfcagbjHXi XjgXbjbj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,7,13,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100101001 100001011 1000110 0101110 010100 0100010110 1001 111001 101111010 10100 101101010 101 110110110 110111 11011011 111010 11101 101 100110110 1001 1100110 0101011 10011010 1011 1111001 11101 1110 11001 111110 11 1011000110 110011 1011100 1101 001100 11
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 231
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; narrowing is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words narrowing, the, you'll, even are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines hope, us are repeated).
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