This is an analysis of the poem Border Walls that begins with:
Now, again in the silent night,
sequestrant walls, border walls ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcd bXb bbefc gXcdhbb Xgai bb XajXbe jjjbia Xjf JJkcgJg gfkgfagXX JEgbXbJE cHffcHda X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,3,5,7,4,2,6,6,3,7,9,8,8,1,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10100101 1001101 1101 11100100011 101011010 11010101 1010010100 10110001001 001001101001 11010010111 11001011 100010100001 1 110 110 00101011 11 101101001 0101011 11 11 110 001001 11 110 0110 01011011 01101 10101 011010011 111010101001000110 101 101101 1010001 011001101 1111 00101 110010101011 1101001000101 1001011 0101 0101 0010110 00100100010100 00101101001 0101 1110101 1 101011 1110 1 01001011 101101010101 1 0100110 0101110 0101 010001 01111 01111001 00101000 1010010100 0101 010001 01101111001 1101 01011 010101 00100011 1101 1011 0100100101 01011010100
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 143
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 75
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (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; of is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, i, come, refer, to, because, with are repeated.
The author used the same word now at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines me is repeated).
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- summary of Border Walls;
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