This is an analysis of the poem I Thirst that begins with:
FIRST VOICE.
I thirst, but earth cannot allay... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bcbc dede afgf a X ghah hidi XhXh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,1,1,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11 11111001 01010111 01010101 01110101 01000101 110100101 11010111 01000101 11011101 11001101 11111101 101110101 101 11011100110 11011101 110101 01101101 010111 11110101 111101 01010001 010101 010101101 1000101 11111111 011101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 97
- Average number of words per stanza: 18
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
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 word the is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines heart is repeated).
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