This is an analysis of the poem Magnitudes that begins with:
Earth’s Wrath at our assaults is slow to come
But relentless when it does. It has to do...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcXXcc XcadeddXeXec aaXXXbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,12,7,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111010101 10101010101 01010110010 1111010101 0110010101 1010100100 0111010101 1001011101 0101011101 100100010 10101000100 10010100010 0101010101 1010010111 1010111101 1101010001 001011100 001010010001 0100100110101 11100111001 11010010001 1111010101 1101010001 01010110101 1101011111 11011100101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 358
- Average number of words per stanza: 67
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- 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; of is repeated.
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