This is an analysis of the poem Danger that begins with:
With what a childish and short-sighted sense
Fear seeks for safety; recons up the days ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbXbbcdcd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 0101011101 1111010101 01010101011 0101010100 0101010001 1111010101 1100110001 10101001001110 1101110111 0111111001 0111110111 01011111001 1101010101 1101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 641
- Average number of words per stanza: 114
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, it, man are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word of is repeated.
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