This is an analysis of the poem 1959 that begins with:

Uncomprising year—I see no meaning to life.
Though this abled self is here nonetheless, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXbb ccddae fgh hXa XahbcieI IXih ahiceefie XaaXegXh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,6,3,3,8,4,9,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 100011111001 1010101101 1001111000 1101010100 110101101 1100100101000100 11001110110 111111100 101100 110011010010 0010011110001 11001101001010 10101001010101001 01011101001 100001010110 1011001010010 010110100110100 010111010 01001011011101 01110101001010 1101111101 110110010 10101101 11010111 111100001 111100001 11000100011 0101000110 11011001 1011 11110011 111010001 01010001 11001 1101100 0110101110001 1101100101 100010101010010 1111111111 10111011101101 10111111010100 101001111 1111101000110 01011010100 111000100 111110111011
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 246
  • Average number of words per stanza: 43
  • Amount of lines: 46
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; these, no, i, to, there, lie, lies are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, there are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines years, mystery, pan are repeated).

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  • summary of 1959;
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