This is an analysis of the poem Rhyme Of One that begins with:
You sleep upon your mother's breast,
Your race begun,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cbcb XbXb dbdb cbcb ebeb fbfbXcbcb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011101 1110 01010111 1101 01011101 1101 11011111 1101 11110101 1111 11111111 0101 11111111 0111 11110111 0111 11111111 1101 11101101 1001 11111111 1111 11010111 1101 11111101 0101 11011101 1101 11111100 1101 01111111 1111
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 107
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 32
- 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; you, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word you is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word one at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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