This is an analysis of the poem Before The Word that begins with:
Corn is great, on the cob or otherwise,
but before corn in the ear there was life. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXbXb cXdecefgcdfe bgaXXXghXd aaeaXha
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,12,10,7,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011011101 1011001111 1001001001100 101101111 01010101101 111 0101 11110101 11101011 10001111011 0001001 101001 1101111 1110001 1101 010011111 1110100101 1101001 110101101 11000101 01010101 11000101 110111001 1100111011 11111101 101101 01010100 00101001 11011 110101010 1011001010 11010111 11010110111 100011011
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 235
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 34
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word we is repeated.
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