This is an analysis of the poem The Western that begins with:
THOR draws a chord invisible
Across the shaking sky:...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababab cdcdEFEFGG cdcdhghgcc XihibgbgGG fdfdXjfjGG jfjfbhXhXEFEF
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,10,10,10,10,13,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11010100 010101 11010001 010111 11010101 010011 01010101 1101110 11010101 11001010 010111110 110011 110101010 010011 01010111 01001101 11110101 1010111 10010101 110101 11000101 100101 01010101 1011101 10010001 01011111 11110100 010001 11010111 111101 01010101 110001 110100101 011101 01010111 01001101 01010001 010101 100101001 010101 01010001 111101 11011101 011101 01010111 01001101 01011101 0010011 01011101 110101 110011101 111101 10010100 110011 010111110 110011 110101010 010011
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 272
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 58
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; in, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and, beyond are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word go at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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