This is an analysis of the poem Seen In A Glass that begins with:
Behind the tree, behind the house, behind the stars
In the presence that I cannot see...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abb aac dda eea ccc ffXfaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 010101010101 001011101 1011111111 1111 01001000101 000100001 1101010111 1010101 11110 01011101 01011100 10010111 01010111 01010111 1010011 111100101 1101111111 0111011101 0101111111 0101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 106
- Average number of words per stanza: 19
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; behind, tree, house, stars, and, of, in are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase tree connects the lines.
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