Shapes And Signs by James Clarence Mangan: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Shapes And Signs that begins with:

I SEE black dragons mount the sky,
I see earth yawn beneath my feet -...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcabcdede fggfggXhXh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11110101 11110111 11010101 10111101 11110101 11111101 1101010 110101 110101010 101101 1010101110 110010111 010001001 010101010 11011101 11001101 1111010 0110101 1011010010 111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 327
  • Average number of words per stanza: 61
  • Amount of lines: 20
  • 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; i is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.

    The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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