This is an analysis of the poem From The Earth, A Cry that begins with:
CAN the earth have a voice? Can the clods have speech,
To murmur and rail at the demigods? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXa bcdefdf beXgf hfXgg Xicjjcklhaifdmm hjffif mmX ikncXof Xfggcog igjgpnfgjjfoljpiggm
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,7,5,5,15,6,3,7,7,19,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10110110111 0101110100 100111010001 011111101001 1010010101 1101111100101 10110101111 1011100111 01001101001 10100101 1111101101 0110110110101 11101101111101010 1111101110111010 111100101001110 011100111 110010011110011 01001001000 10010100110111 1011011010010010 1111101010 1110101111010010 11100111110 101101011001 01001010001010 10101101111001001 01101101010 0111010101101 0101010111101 11101011111 1101110111 0101010101101 1011010110111 11101011101010010 1111010101001110 10010101011010 0101001110010 0101100100101 0101 1111001101001011 0010010111011010 10011110101111010 0110110101111010 110100110100111 10100101100110111 1110110101011010 010101101110011101 1010101111100010 10110011100100 1011011011010 10110111111010110101111111001010 111101010110010 100101111101111 11111001011110 101101111001010 101110010011010 010010010011010110 0101011111010110 100100110011010 111101100010110110 1001001001101001 111001111111011011001101001111010010 1001001011101001 11101110011010011 111101101111 110100110100001 1101001011101 1101010101011010 110100100010111 1101011010111 111111111010101 11110110111001 11111111101101 1010100110111110 11101001010111 1011101011001011 110010111100110
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 483
- Average number of words per stanza: 89
- Amount of lines: 77
- Average number of symbols per line: 62 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; for, and, who, of, thy, in, they, thee, their, life, from, to, you, that are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words for, they, is, the, that, and are repeated.
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