This is an analysis of the poem The Statues In The Block that begins with:

“LOVE is the secret of the world,' he said;
'The cup we drain and still desire to drink. ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcdefX aaghijkl dmXXmmeX jcnhaekojfdXdjlkgpdcepdX cmdahdkjhjqlXXddldhrsmXdtparslbmcdscjlaaajajmX au mmmjjedhshjmjgncejajtoahluhmbusaetkbaX jloaac uddmmjpdeqoaafsjlulmdlXaXsajauabiXllaqjhsuaamljuojbnjpdjadloqealegfXjudhlmlaXonaojX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,8,8,24,46,2,38,6,83,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1001000111 11111101001 0101010101 010101010100 1111011101 11110101001 1110111101 1101011111 1101010111 0101010111 1101011101 11110010101 1101010101 1101000101 01001000101 11001011101 11011101010 1111011100 110100101010 010111110010 1100110101 10101110101 1111000101 0101010101 01110101110 10010011010 1001010101 11010101010 0101000101 0101011101 1111110101 1111010101 0101010111 0111010101 1101010001 0111010111 0101010101 1101010111 1101011111 1111010111 11111100001 1111110101 1101010001 1111011001 1111010011 0111110111 1101010001 1101011111 1001010110 1101111101 0101000111 1001010111 1111110111 10111100101 01010010111 1101000101 1111010100 010010101011 110010101010 1101100101 0100010101 1101011101 1101011101 110110101 1101010101 1101011111 11111100111 01010111110 01011000101 11010101010 0111110001 0111000101 0111010101 0111011101 1101011101 110111001010 1111110111 1101010111 0111110101 1101001101 1100010111 01011011010 01001110101 01011100101 1111011111 0101110101 1101010011 0101010001 1111110111 0101010111 1111111111 1111011111 11110111100 1101010111 1101010101 1111010111 01010101111 11110110101 1101011101 1101001101 1101110101 0111001101 11001010101 110111011010 1111110111 1111011101 1111011001 1111110101 1101100101 1101110100 1111011101 1101011101 1101010101 11111110101 0111011111 1101110101 1111010101 1111111101 1100011101 1101110101 1101111101 1101110111 0001011111 1101111101 1111011101 01110101110 1111110101 1111111101 1111110111 11010101001 1101100101 1101010101 0111111101 01110000101 1101110101 0101010101 1111010101 110011010101 0111110111 1100010101 1111101101 1111110101 1101111101 0111011101 0101010111 1111010101 0111111101 1101110101 11010101011 1111110111 1100010111 1101010101 0101110101 1101110100 1111111111 0101101101 1111010111 11111101110 1111000111 1101010111 11110101010 1001010101 01110011101 11110101010 11011111010 1111100101 11001110101 1111011111 1100111111 01001110101 1100110101 1111110101 1111100111 0101110101 1111011111 1111011111 11010101011 110101111 0101001101 11111101110 1111001110 1101111101 11111111010 1111110111 0100110101 1111110111 1101010101 1111011111 1100110111 1100111111 01111011110 1111110001 1111111101 1111110101 01011111110 1101110101 1111000111 0101110101 1101011101 11110101011 1111010101 0111011101 11110011010 1111110101 10011111010 0111010111 11011111110 1101111101 1111010101 1111010001 1111110111 1101110101 0111110101 1111100101 1101111111 10110101110 1111000101 11010111010 1101110101 0101111111 1111010101 11111101110
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1113
  • Average number of words per stanza: 211
  • Amount of lines: 222
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, of, and, with, her, i, his, to, thy, thee, for, my, me, as, no are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and, her, i, who, thy, your are repeated.

    The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of The Statues In The Block;
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