This is an analysis of the poem Galatea Encore that begins with:
As though the mercury's under its tongue, it won't
talk. As though with the mercury in its sphincter, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXababacXcXcdcd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110100100101 111001000010 010101101 01111101010 10111010010111 1101001010 11101101 111001001010 1100101111 011101010 101110101 00100101101000 100100101 101011101011 01010101000001 1101101010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 730
- Average number of words per stanza: 123
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; of is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word when is repeated.
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