This is an analysis of the poem Stumbling Through Your Paradise that begins with:
Stumbling through your paradise,
With eyes not opened wide enough....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCD AXdXe fefcX ABCD eeXdeX ABCD dggdX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,5,5,4,6,4,5,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10011101 01110101 110001 11110101 10011101 1000110 110101 11110100 11 1110011 1111001 1110011 10011101 11 10011101 01110101 110001 11110101 10111 1101 11010101 0001010111 000101 11011001 10011101 01110101 110001 11110101 110101111 101 111001011 001101110 101110
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 136
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 33
- 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:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, not, it are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word have is repeated.
The author used the same word stumbling 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 you is repeated).
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