This is an analysis of the poem A Fear that begins with:
O Mother Earth, I have a fear
Which I would tell to thee-...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efef ghgh baba hihi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011101 111101 10110011 1011111 111101100 011111 11010111 111111 10111111 011111 11011101 110101 11111110 110011 110100101 010111 010100111 010101 101010111 111111 101110101 011100 111010111 111001
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 125
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; thy, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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