This is an analysis of the poem In A Zone Owned that begins with:
Staying sharp one can't be dizzy,
Or accept a dullness to set......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcb CDeB ffea CFCC CDeB CFCC BFbABaE BFbABaE BCX BCXFBFBcB BXB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,7,7,3,9,3,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10111010 10101001 1001111 101 1110011 01100110111 01111100 001111101101 0001001001 101001101011 1101100110 1001111110 111010111 001001001101 111101111001 0100011010001 1110011 01100110111 01011111100 001111101101 111010111 001001001101 111101111001 0100011010001 11101 0111 111101 101110 11101 0101110 0100010011001 1011101 0111 11011101 101110 1011101 0111110 0100010011001 11101 0111 0100100101 1011101 0111 0100100101 0011 1011101 0011 1011101 00111 1011101 1011101 1011101
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 144
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 52
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
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; who, to, few, very, have, ever, left are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word very is repeated.
The author used the same words few, very 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 left is repeated).
The poet repeated the same words please, left at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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