This is an analysis of the poem Five Poems From “helen: A Revision” that begins with:
Nothing is known about Helen but her voice
Strange glittering sparks...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXb cacdd ca e f b X c g a hhh ggg hhh XbieXe jeek ifdk eXdj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,5,2,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,3,3,3,6,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 10010110101 11001 1011011010 100110101 1100011101101 010100101 11101010 1110110 1010 100010 100000111110111100010011110100001001001001010101001101100111010110111111111101111110111010111101001011100100010110111011100111111101011101011100101111011110101100111111110 1001011001000101101101011100 1011100011001001010010000101011010111111010101010 1000110011101111101011101101011101001 1100111010111011011011001010111 100101010111010111101110010100010101 1111101110 11100101010110101 101110111110101 10110111101 101 1010001101101 10101001101 1101 1011101100101 11111000101 0101 0101 01110111 111010101 111011100 11010101 0101 1001101 1100111100 01110111 1111 11110101 11110 0111011101 1111 0101100101 0101110111 1101010111 011111
- Amount of stanzas: 21
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 134
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 51
- Average number of symbols per line: 55 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; one, i, of, sky, and, have, to, in, this, that, players, be, not, because, they, you, thersites, he are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words , and are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines naked, , cost, lodge are repeated).
The poet repeated the same word death at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase connects the lines.
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