This is an analysis of the poem Searching Desperately With A Seeking that begins with:
They have been searching desperately,
With a seeking to uncover answers....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABbBCdbE dfgdg ABbBCdbE bHBHbXXXABbHBHbfb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,5,8,17,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110101000 0010001010 11111010 110011 1011111 0011010001 0010011 00100101001 110101 1101011101 10110100111 01011110 110110101101 110101000 0010001010 1111010 110011 1011111 0011010001 00100101 00100101001 11001010101 01011010101 11110010 11101 1111111 1110010010 00100010010 110101000 0010001010 11001010101 01011010101 11110010 11101 0110101001 111100010001 01011011111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 287
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 37
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.
The author used the same word they at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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