This is an analysis of the poem Till All The Bad Things Came Untrue that begins with:
BY blacksoil plains burned grey with drought
Where desert shrubs and grasses grow,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcbcb ddddebeb fefegbgb ababhbhb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011101 11011101 01010101 11010001 11111101 01110101 11110101 11011101 11111101 11111110 11111111 11110111 11011111 11111101 11110101 11011101 11010111 01111110 11111111 01100001 110110011 01110101 110100111 11011001 01011101 10111101 01110111 11110101 11110101 01011101 11011101 11011001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 297
- Average number of words per stanza: 56
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- 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; i, dreamed, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words my, i, and are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word untrue at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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