This is an analysis of the poem Picking Teachers For Their Leader that begins with:
Strangers!
Come before the darkness of night, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aBaCaACBB defbdXb GcaXc GcXa Gcfh aBaCaACBB GaGaGhXaeX GGGGGG aBaCaACBBXGGGGGG
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,7,5,4,4,9,10,6,16,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10 10101001 1 111100101 10 101 10011001 11 100101001 111010101 1011110 111011111 1101011001 100001 11101 1111111 10101110 101101 011110 0100101 111100101 10101110 1110101 111 1111 110101110 111101 111011 0110101 10 10101001 1 111100101 10 101 10011001 11 100101001 110101110 1101 110101110 1101 110101110 11101 10111 1010101 110001010 1010101100 110101110 10101110 110101110 10101110 10101110 10101110 10 10101001 1 111100101 10 101 10011001 11 100101001 110101110 10101110 110101110 10101110 10101110 10101110
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 196
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 69
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
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; their, picking, teachers, for, leader are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word picking is repeated.
The author used the same words picking, their 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 leader is repeated).
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