This is an analysis of the poem Drops Of It Hitting Shores Everywhere that begins with:
Feed me unfed delusions.
If you believe me to be that unconscious....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABACDE ABACDE ffXABACDE
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110010 01011001110 111101001 101101001 110111101 111101 1110010 01011001110 111101001 101101001 110111101 111101 111111011001 1111100101101 1110010 01011001110 111101001 101101001 110111101 111101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 178
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; me, you are repeated.
The author used the same word feed at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word asleep at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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