This is an analysis of the poem A Thing That Still Hasn'T Come Up To My Lips that begins with:
A thing that still hasn't come up to my lips and only peeks through my eyes,
It asks for words, sometimes from me and sometimes from you,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXa XXXba
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,5,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 011110110111101111 0111010110101 110111111001 1110100111 1010100001000010 0101010001 1011110011111111 0011000111001000
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 154
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 57 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, that, words, it are repeated.
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