This is an analysis of the poem The Bedouin that begins with:
The Dead Sea, and, beyond, the greyish, broken
Line of the hills. Noon. Mealtime. Deft of hand,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xaba acXc cXc Xbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 01110101010 1001111101 11011101010 1101110101 01110101010 0101000101 11011101010 1100010111 11010111110 0101110100 01001101010 1101110101 01010101110 01010011010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 155
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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 is repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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