This is an analysis of the poem Drifting Away From Under Where They Sit that begins with:
Plummeting from careers of positions,
Are those who jumped hastily....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abacXaX daaXaeddc fXggXefe ggbghah Xidicff Xdea
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,9,8,7,7,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1000010010 1111100 1010110 1010010 110 10101001010 1010101 1100111111 010010101 1100011101 010101 1110101 10100 110 1 1010 10010101001101 010011010101001 0111 001010011011 010110100101 10111101 011101001010111 1111010010 101111 0101011 110 01001000101 0110001001 10101101 101 101100111101 0010011010111 0101 010010101 011001100 101 1001101010101 1010110011101 11 010101100101 0010100010
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 239
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; of is repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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