This is an analysis of the poem To Jon In October that begins with:
Knowing our lives a drowse
towards death...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xabcddeebdfbagb fhhfdd gcdicb bcdiXjdjX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,6,6,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101101 011 01011 10 110110 11010 1101 111 111 110 101 01101 01 11 0101010 11111 01001101 01011 01110100 0101110 111110 1111 0001001 100010 101010 0111 0101001 1110101 101 1010 1010 101 1101001 010110 1111 0011100
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 179
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 19 (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; day is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines day is repeated).
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