This is an analysis of the poem The Bridge: Atlantis that begins with:
Through the bound cable strands, the arching path
Upward, veering with light, the flight of strings,— ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbdbeb dfghhhie bjXkdkXb XcjiXbab jlhhcldj blcebche cdmdbnbb jmkmfeee aiXbcibc fbXhgbeb gcnXmihc elbXhkbk
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1011010101 1010010101 110010011101 01010100010 1010011011 01010100101 100101010001 1101010001 1111010001 1101001101 1101110100 1001111111 1000110111 1111011111 01010100101 1101010011 11010111001 1101001101 0111010110 1101110101 10110101010 1101110101 0101000101 010100100101 1001111101 11011100101 11011100111 10001011101 0110010111 11010111001 11110100111 1001010101 1111110101 11010010101 010010101101 010110101 1101110101 1101000101 10001010101 1101010001 0101010001 1100010101 1101010001 01011100101 00110000101 110001010101 01001001001 1111010101 1101010001 10101010101 0101111101 1101010111 11010010001 0101010101 0101110101 010110101 11101001101 0101100101 011100110001 0101000101 0111011101 1111010101 1111110011 1111010101 11010010101 1110001101 110101000010 1011110011 0101010001 0101010101 1101100011 01011100101 01010100111 110110001 010101100 1111010011 01110010100 1111010100 010101011 0100110101 0101111100 010110101 0100110111 110101001010 110001101 111101010111 11110010101 0101110101 1011000011 11100001101 1101000101 1001001101 11110100001 1101011111 0100010001 1010000101
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 354
- Average number of words per stanza: 56
- Amount of lines: 96
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; of, and, thou 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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