This is an analysis of the poem Strangers' Walk that begins with:
I know the house from the bunch of sage. The first of the
windows leans toward the butterflies...blue......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbcdefghbfXeXijgfcXdfckgajlegifggghXmdjXklgjhXm
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 48,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101001010100 101010100 111011101011 00110101001011 1011101111010 0111110010010 10101100101 0101011001 11011111 111101010001011 011101011110 1111011111 110110001010 01011111111 1101001010101 100111011 0100111001 100110011 111111011 100100111 111110001 111100101001 0101001110 0110101001110 010111001 11010010010100 1111100101 001001110010 10110110 0101100111 11011110110 01010101010 111110111 01001 010111001 110111111 1101001011111 110010100100 1111111110010 01101111101 101111101 1010011111111 1110100 1101 010101101 00101 0101100111101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1047
- Average number of words per stanza: 204
- Amount of lines: 47
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; i, know, leave, me, you, still, runs are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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