This is an analysis of the poem Pursuit From Under that begins with:
Often, in these blue meadows,
I hear what passes for the bark of seals ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aa bXcdd Xc dXadc Xd cefXg gg XahXg ei aadch ch cidcg Xj cdbgf hd aekdX ij Xjack
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,5,2,5,2,5,2,5,2,5,2,5,2,5,2,5,2,5,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001111 1111010101 111011010010011 111111 11100110101 111011111 1011111 011101 0101010111 0111110101 111011 0010010010 1010101 001101101110 010110 1101101 01111110 111010110 101111011 0110100 0111001 01011101 1110101 001011 11101011 1011011 1101 0101111 001010110 011100 1101011110 1111101110 0000010 010010101111 10101001 111101 01110101 100101 10111100 1101010011 010111 1110011 101011001 0011011 110011010 0100101 11010110 01011011 1111101 1110001 1001001 01111 1100110010 1110101 10111001 11101 100001010 011101 11101101 10011001110 1011111 11101101 101001011
- Amount of stanzas: 18
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 114
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 63
- 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; you is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the 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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- summary of Pursuit From Under;
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- history of its creation;
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