This is an analysis of the poem To The Chief Musician Upon Nabla: A Tyndallic Ode that begins with:
I.
I come from fields of fractured ice, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bcbcdede X ddddXfaf X dbdbghgh X afaficic a hdhddhdh a hfhfdXjd X bdbdjkjk X blblafaf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 1 11010101 1111110 10111001 1101110 10010101 0111110 110111001 1101010 1 11010010 0101010 110101010 1001010 01010101 010101 01011001 110101 1 11111111 1100110 110101011 0101011 11011111 11010100 01010001 11011101 1 010100101 11001 11110111 111101 111101001 1111010 11011111 0101010 1 11010101 1101110 11010101 0100010 11110111 1101011 01010101 0011011 1 11110101 0111010 010100101 0100010 11110101 1101000 11111111 1111010 1 11111101 1100010 10011101 0100010 11011101 1101010 11110101 0101010 1 10011101 10010010 11011101 0101010 011101011 1111010 10110111 1101010
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 135
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 79
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; it, her are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, what, her are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase i connects the lines.
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