This is an analysis of the poem A Benediction Of The Air that begins with:

In every presence there is absence.
When we're together, the spaces between...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: a bcaddeddacacebfdX cgbhiccb fhXXadadaaja kklcmhXca b ijXajanoagfmXaaXfbnld a ooXXj
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,17,8,12,9,1,21,1,5,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0100101010 1101001001 10001110 1101110 010011111 1110011 01010010 0101001 101001011 0100111010 101001010 11000101 0100110 11101010 010101 1011101 111011101 1110011111 101011 00010010 101011011 10001011 101000101 010111010 0011110010 00100001 11101011 1111011 1010101 010101010 1101010100 11011001 111101 1010111 010000110 1000010001 001110011 01101010 01011110 10010111 11010110 110101 0011 11110010 0110000 10110 000101 01 11010111 11001 010000 01110001 1101010 10010101010 10101 1110000 101011 0100000010 10101 001001 0100000 11101010 10101 1110 10111 111010 010101 1000100 11101011 0100101010 10 10 1000 1 010110100
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 228
  • Average number of words per stanza: 41
  • Amount of lines: 75
  • Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; what, to are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words what, your, bene are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines bene is repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase bene connects the lines.

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