This is an analysis of the poem You Whom I Hoped To Reach By Writing that begins with:
You whom I hoped to reach by writing,
you beyond the multicolored tangle...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xabacdbcbbb XbXXXXb Xdb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,7,3,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111101110 1010101010 010110 1011101 10010 1001011 11010 111110111111 1111001010 11111011 1101100101 1101 11110 011101 1011 011011110 11010 00011111 110111 111 1110
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 197
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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; you, i, in, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word you is repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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