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Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abc XdaXcXeX eXXbdcd XXXe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,8,7,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 1101010 11 011101000110100 1110011101 010 1011110 1111110101 11101111 101010101010 1101001010100 1 011 1011011 101110101 10111110010 11011 11111101101000 110 11 111110 10111010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 156
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 22
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
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