This is an analysis of the poem Song Of The Son that begins with:
Pour O pour that parting soul in song
O pour it in the sawdust glow of night...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbAAcddccebbeedffdcGcG
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 23,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 111110101 1100011101 0001011101 1101010001 1101010001 1111111111 1101110001 1101110101 1101110101 1111010101 0111010101 0111010111 1111001111 0111011011 1001110111 1101110101 111000111 1001110111 1111111101 1101010101 1001010100 110111101 1001010100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 951
- Average number of words per stanza: 183
- Amount of lines: 23
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- 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; pour, and, in, time are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, thy are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines along, thee, gone are repeated).
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