This is an analysis of the poem Storms Come that begins with:
Failures are made from dusk to dawn.
With them approved, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCBBDE FGFHFIJ FKAHA FGFHFIJ ABCBBDE FKAHA BAJXBAJ AHABAgAg AHABAXAg AkAXADADD ADdXADDDd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,5,7,7,5,7,8,8,9,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10110101 0001 0111010 1001 110101 011111010 10001 111 01110 11 01110 11 1111 1101110 11 0011 0101110 111111010 1010101 111 01110 11 01110 11 1111 1101110 10110101 0001 0111010 1001 110101 011111010 10001 11 0011 0101110 111111010 1010101 11011000101 1101010 0111010 1 11011000101 1101010 0111010 110101 01111 110101 001010 110101 010010 110101 01100 110101 01111 110101 001010 110101 01001 110101 01101 110101 0110001 110101 01010111 110101 0111101 110101 0111101 01 110101 01 101 110101 01 101 101 101
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 161
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 78
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; god, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, god are repeated.
The author used the same word storms 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 real is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word real at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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