This is an analysis of the poem Who Came To Taint The Rainbows that begins with:
I once thought love was universal.
Felt to feel within everyone in view....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xabcd cadee fgfcf FFada ddgfeX FFebXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 111111010 1010110101 1111101001 101010001 0011001 11111 111011 1100001 01110010 0110011100 11011 110111 1001000101 1100101 10101011 1101011 0110101 10110101 0011011010 11 11010111 0101101101 11011011010 101011101 0110101101 101001110 1101011 0110101 10110001 0101101 00100111000 110101010
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 182
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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 words i, who 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 it is repeated).
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