This is an analysis of the poem Had A Brain Been There To Vanish? that begins with:
Since I see the light within you dims...
The urgency to stop it, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xabbbcdc XXXdcabX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111010111 0100010 111 1101010 10010111 11110101 1100101101 10101011 10101010 101010 10100100101 11001110101 10100101 110010011 11111010 111100
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 262
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.
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