This is an analysis of the poem To The Poetry Of Hugh Mccrae that begins with:
UNCLES who burst on childhood, from the East,
Blown from air, like bearded ghosts arriving, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdaeaefcfcgcgchbhbiXicXbXbcjcj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 36,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011111001 1011101010 1101010111 11011101010 100101100101 11010101010 1011110101 111111010010 1001010001 00110001110 1011011101 101100110010 1011000111 01010111010 1111000101 11011101110 1111000111 11011101010 110101101001 11010001010 1101110101 11010011010 1101110101 10110001110 1111010100 11111100110 1111010111 01010100110 10010111011 011100101010 100111100101 100110100010 1111111100 11001111110 1111010101 11110001010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1691
- Average number of words per stanza: 284
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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, and, what, we, after are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words we, after are repeated.
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