This is an analysis of the poem From The Podium that begins with:
In memory of
Paul van Ostaijen...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXaXabcXcdddbee bedcacdXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 17,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01000 11100 10001100 0111011 1010010 10100 10110101010010 101001010101 101001010100110 11011001101 1101010110 111100111 1010101001 001101 001111 011010110 11110010 111001 0010 0100110011 1111101100 00100100010010 10101001001100110 01111110 1000101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 294
- Average number of words per stanza: 53
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- 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; on, horizon, your, in, like, hand are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words on, in are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines hand is repeated).
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- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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