This is an analysis of the poem Ash that begins with:
The substance that stirs in my palm
could well be a dead man; no need ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xaab bXcX Xcad dXdd bbdbX dbdb dcba XaXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,5,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01011011 11001111 01011010101 11101001001101 00110101 111101010010 1011011001 0101011 01001001000011010 1010001001 1101001101 111101010001 1010010110010 10110 101111001 11110101100011 101100011 01100110101 011110001 001001011001 111001 1110101 11010101101 01101 01000111 0111111 01100010110100 10111 011101001 0110001 110011 010110110101 100101001
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 160
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 33
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my 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 Ash;
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