This is an analysis of the poem Voices Returning that begins with:
VOICES returning, cradle us, cradling voices:
Echoes extenuated of what we love as it passes,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaA BaXB ccA aXB X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 1001010110010 10100001111010 1011001010 1001010110010 01011110111001 10010101010010 101011101000 01011110111001 001001010111 00100100100101 1001010110010 01011001011001 1010010101001 01011110111001 01011010
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 147
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; voices, of, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word in is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines passes is repeated).
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