This is an analysis of the poem The Poet Viii that begins with:

He is a link between this and the coming world.
He is ...

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  • Rhyme scheme: abc dbebfgheXijXc abee kke hlf miabj XbXiemabbge ml ad Xii
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,13,4,3,3,5,11,2,2,3,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 100101010101 10 010101110111 100110101001010 1101011 10010010001 1000100100 10011010100010 010110010101001 10110100101 10011000101 10110110100 101010 1001011000110 1100001010010 1110011101100010 1001010101001001 10110101010010 10101110010001 01000100010 10010110100100 1000101010010 1010100 00010101001001 11010110111010 1111010010010 000101110 0100101 00010110011 10100010010 101001010100 01110100101 0111101001011 101101100010 11110111010 0010100110 100111 011110101001 1010101111 0100100110101 110100010001 10100110000101 101101001111 101001000110100 1010111011 111101110 10010110110 101000101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 216
  • Average number of words per stanza: 39
  • Amount of lines: 57
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; by, of, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words he, until are repeated.

    The author used the same words he, this, poet at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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

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