This is an analysis of the poem Pantoum: Landing, 1976 that begins with:
Dreaming the lives of the ancestors,
you awake, justly terrified of this world:...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abCd bEdf EcfX fCXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100100110 10110101001 11110101111 1110100101 10111101001 111011101010 1110110101 010010110 111011101010 0001011101 01001110110 111101101 110110110 11110101111 1110011011 100100110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 174
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word you is repeated.
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