This is an analysis of the poem The Words Of Belief that begins with:
Three words will I name thee--around and about,
From the lip to the lip, full of meaning, they flee;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aBabXc bdbdee fbfbff ghghaa aBabXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011101101 001001101011 111111001001 101101111000 1110011010010 1011110111 1011111101 101011111101 11001001010 11001001001 11101111001 101101011001 11001101101 11101001001 11101110101 1100100101 001000101101 10100100111 10110101101 101001101011 100001001001 01101001001 10110011010 1100111010010 11011001101 001001101011 111111001001 101001111000 110110011010 1011110111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 286
- Average number of words per stanza: 56
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; lip, man, and, to, from are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, whatever are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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