This is an analysis of the poem Cactus Seed that begins with:

Radiant notes piercing my narrow-chested room, beating down through my ceiling— smeared with unshapen belly-prints of dreams drifted out of old...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: X abcdXeeeX X fcgdaXfgfXXdcbX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,9,1,15,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1001101101011011110101001010110101110010010011011010110110100101110101110101011 100101 10100101011 1010 01001011 011101111100101 1110 1100100 01001011 101011 1 10011101011 10011110110 00101111010 111001 1110010 1100 1001101001 011101001000011 101 1101100 1001011 0010011 1010001010 1000111 10110111101110101101101111001111011010100100111100110100111010011001010
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 348
  • Average number of words per stanza: 61
  • Amount of lines: 26
  • Average number of symbols per line: 53 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, my are repeated.

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  • summary of Cactus Seed;
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