This is an analysis of the poem Two Poems: (Numbers I And X In 'strange Meetings.') that begins with:
I
If suddenly a clod of earth should rise, ... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: abXbX cXca XXddd XdXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,5,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 0100010111 1101111111 1111010101 11110 1111011111 1111101111 1111011101 111101 1 010010101 10101010 10111010 11111010 10101001 10101010 1111000 11101110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 152
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; and, you, i, now are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word now is repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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