This is an analysis of the poem As If To Digest In The Darkness that begins with:

Everyday those same voices heard increase!
Everyday...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: AbBB AbBB CBD Abb CBD eaaa CbbCbbXeaaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,3,4,11,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1011110101 101 11 1101 1011110101 101 11 1101 011111110 1101 11001 1011110101 101 111101 011111110 1101 11001 111010101011 001011101 1100101101010 011100 101111010010 101 101 101111010010 101 101 10110111001 011100101 01000100 100010010
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 99
  • Average number of words per stanza: 16
  • Amount of lines: 31
  • Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 4
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, everyday are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word everyday is repeated.

    The author used the same word everyday 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 everyday is repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word away at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase everyday connects the lines.

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  • summary of As If To Digest In The Darkness;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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