This is an analysis of the poem Terrestrial Verses that begins with:

Then
The sun turned cold...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abc bbdbcefcg hhahbaiacccjbfkXkblccbXcckmndckkkBXlb ebag mmmmcnc gafnlnbXc nXbcailclcfXcelc mcmboloc jBXokdKhllKc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,9,37,4,7,9,16,8,12,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 0111 101011 101011 101011 101001 010101 01010110 10100101010 1001010 101 01011001 1101101 11010101 11 1010101 0010101 10011 011010011 01010 1101010 101010 110001 1010111 11010 0010010100 11010 010011 1011010 011010010 00100010 100010010 1010110 10000010 1100101010 1101101001 100100011 110010100101 010101 10101001010 10011 01001010100 10101 110101001 010101 0111 01111011 101110 0101 1010 010001011 0011 0111 10 011010 010100110 010001011 1001010110 1010010110 1010011 011101001 10010001 10010100100 11011010 1111101 0010 100101 1110 1011 1001010 101010100 1101 111101 111001010 10101 11 0100101 110101 1111101 11001010 111101 11100 10 1101 0101010 011 01011 0101 1101 1011101 011010 10001 00100001010 0111110010 0111 11111 010111 110101 01 10101 101000101 10101001 100101 10101 011010
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 303
  • Average number of words per stanza: 53
  • Amount of lines: 112
  • Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • 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; and is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, none, the are repeated.

    The author used the same word perhaps 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 more, people are repeated).

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