This is an analysis of the poem Green Mirage that begins with:
The whole day,
I was crying in the eyes of mirrors....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbXb Xcd Efcbbdcgbbg deX hidjX AXbedb KB dhe bb fkcd Iaak ie Ihe fbXde KB gXggb cldcXk KB abgkbab bgdd Abebbbg lh Ef dej lXea kel Xj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,3,11,3,5,6,2,3,2,4,4,2,3,5,2,5,6,2,7,4,7,2,2,3,4,3,2,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011 1110001010 0111010110 001010001 11110001101 10101101 1010001 111 11111 0101 0101 0101 101001 11 0101001 0110110 1110 10111101 111 011101 100010100101 10110101011101 10101 1110 1111 101 011 110001011 110101 01001011 110111 01101 1101 1101 1110101 001010101 101 10111111 1011111 0111010111 10010101 01011 10111 111 101010011 1010011101 00101 1101010111 1010011 111 11111111 110110111 11111 10100110 1101 0101001 011 1101 1101 1011010101 1011010100 1010010111 10111 10101100101 101011010 1111010 0010101111 0101010101 111101011 1001010001011 1101 1101 1101101 101101101 101101 10100101011 101110001001 1101 1010010100111 101101 10101010 101011101 10100010111 011 100100110101 01011 111001 10010101 010101011 1011001 11111110 1000100101 111 1111 111101 010010100001 10111010010011 101 1101 110111 1001 1 111001 11010 010101000101101
- Amount of stanzas: 27
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 115
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 107
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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, they, shelter, me, your are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, the, and, they, what, shelter, you are repeated.
The author used the same words i, shelter at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Green Mirage;
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