This is an analysis of the poem A Vast Confusion that begins with:
Long long I lay in the sands
Sounds of trains in the surf...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a XXXXbbXbbbaXbbccXXXcac
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,22,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111001 101001 011001 111010100 00101000101 01001010 1010101010 10111 0101010100 01100 010100 01010 11110101 01100 01010 01110101 10100 1010101 101101001 10100 1001 100 1011
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 292
- Average number of words per stanza: 53
- Amount of lines: 23
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
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 a is repeated.
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