This is an analysis of the poem Long Rusted In Shifted Dust that begins with:
Once one stops!
A beginning that had started......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abb CXDde daaadaeb babfaf CXD ggd abadX ehdh heXXdXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,5,8,6,3,3,5,4,7,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111 00101110 101011 111010 10100101000 10110101 10010011 101 11 10100010 10011001 1011 0010010100 10101010100 001 010100001 1 01001001 11110 10010 11010011 00101001010100 111010 10100101000 10110101 111100010 0010101010 101011001 111 1101 11 1110 01011 111001 1010111 101100101 00111111010 0110110101 0111 1110001 001000101 1100101 1001000 01011101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 137
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
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; that, to, of are repeated.
The author used the same word and 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 agenda is repeated).
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