This is an analysis of the poem Elegy For Whatever Had A Pattern In It that begins with:

Now that the Summer of Love has become the moss of tunnels
And the shadowy mouths of tunnels & all the tunnels lead into the city,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ab cd e dfd g d gh aXd f hi jX Xk b j lm XX aj dj ada a n okX m dj Xp D jh DX jld f fnaX l d mj p klf lX em mn f e ch dhj mf e l mX hf qi l mfg o dr pd h a jX bjf k i p llX dk d bf gaa fqa l qkf d ga ddr X cXX X h ki k h koj l me mj q j nmf m hn a hX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,1,3,1,1,2,3,1,2,2,2,1,1,2,2,2,2,3,1,1,3,1,2,2,1,2,2,3,1,4,1,1,2,1,3,2,2,2,1,1,2,3,2,1,1,2,2,2,1,3,1,2,2,1,1,2,3,1,1,1,3,2,1,2,3,3,1,3,1,2,3,1,3,1,1,2,1,1,3,1,2,2,1,1,3,1,2,1,2,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 110100110101010 1010010101010100010 0100101100101010010011 101011111111 101100010110101010011 1111111111011001 010101011010101110100 100111010111110 111101101 000101111010110 110111111101001 1101111011110 101001010100110111 1110001011001001001 01011110110010011 101101010111011100 10011101010001110 0101110111000 00101101001 1 11000111101001101 011010111101110110 1101010 11001001011110101010 011110001101010101 110010110010101 11101010101101010 0010101101001 10100101010010011 110110011101 00101101010100101000 101010100111001 110101011000111 0111100100010111 01000110100011001 1001111101 100101 01010111001000101101 110100110110010 1010011010100100 10110010001 1111011100111100 00010111111 011001101011100 1111001011110110 010111010 10100100111101 1001010010100110 010111010 1 0100101001100011 01100111111 00111111001 11101100101110 10010101100101011 1010111001111001 100101011011 1 10010110111101 1111101010 01011111001100011 0111110000101 1110100110110 01101011111100110 11101011010010 0111110101001011 11010111111101 01110011101 1010011110111111 1010001010101111 011110101001 1111101100111100 1111001101011 1000100101010111 1101010111010110011 11011110 11100101010011001 10101010111110 111110111101 100101100010001 11101101011 1110101101011011 011101110101101 0101010010101 1 001001001011110 111011001000101 11111101011011101 101011010010101101 111110100011001 011001110100110 1110011011010 11011110100111 01110100101 1111101000111 1111010110111001 110101101110100111110 0100101100110100 1111010 0111011101011001 111101010100111111 11111101000 00101110101001111100 10110011110100101100 011001000110111010 00101000111010 110110111111101 110110 0010011110101 101110111000011001 10001110001011111 111010010110100111 110010011010 10101010111010 1000110101010110100 11111111001 1101011110111111 11011101110101 1000101011 1101011110100101 01010010100100101 10100101010101 11100101110101 0111110101 01000110101110 10100110110100101 11101001011111 1110101111 000110100101011111 01111101010101011 11100110101101 1001001011101111 01110110110111 1011101001010011 1010001001010010 1 101111011100 1101011110 01101001101100110 0101010111001001 10110 011101100101110101 10011010101010110 1111011101111 1010011111010001 101101010101 01000101010100010001 010010010101001 10111001010111 11001001 111111101 1111101000111010101 0100100101011101 001011101110101001 0101100010110101001 1111 01001111001011110 010111 010000110101 0100110100111110 1 101110100101010 110111001011 11011
  • Amount of stanzas: 92
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 101
  • Average number of words per stanza: 19
  • Amount of lines: 168
  • Average number of symbols per line: 55 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 10
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, tunnels, it, what, after, on, her, stillness, in, you, wait, he, went, box, to, his, him, cell, we, oblivion, and are repeated.

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

    The author used the same words in, oblivion 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 trees is repeated).

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