This is an analysis of the poem A Parable Of Immortality that begins with:
I am standing upon the seashore.
A ship at my side spreads her white sails to the morning breeze... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abc XbdebX a X adfc e fbXgf Xg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,6,1,1,4,1,5,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111001011 01111101100101 1110110 1011001011 11111011111 101011 110111110100110 1111111 11111 11 1011101 10111011111 11111111 1111001010101 00101010 00101001100 111010 1111111 11111 1110110010 1101010011011 11111 11010
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 101
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 23
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; and, her are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word gone is repeated.
The author used the same word gone at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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