This is an analysis of the poem Desperate And Dreaming that begins with:
Desperate!
And dreaming....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aBAA ABCD EDFDGDGD aBCD gDaDaDdDD abCD EDFDGDGD aBAAXABCD
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,8,4,9,4,8,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100 110 00111001 0011101 10100 110 0101010100 110110111 1111111 11010111 0101100101 11010111 010110101010 11010111 01011010101 11010111 111100 110 0101010100 110110111 010010101111 11010111 110101111100 11010111 1101110101 11010111 0111101111 11010111 11010111 110100 101010 0101010100 110110111 1111111 11010111 0101100101 11010111 010110101010 11010111 01011010101 11010111 100 110 00111001 0011101 10100 110 0101010100 110110111
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 179
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 49
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; that, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word that is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines blood is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word blood at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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