This is an analysis of the poem The Earth Is Closing On Us that begins with:
The Earth is closing on us
pushing us through the last passage ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcaXXXaadcaddeXXXbe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101011 10110110 111111011 010101 111001 11111101 11011110 110101 111010101 111010110 1101001101 110100100011 1101110 1111100101 1101110011 110111001101 101110101 1011010010010111 1011100110 11111010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 819
- Average number of words per stanza: 162
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; us, of, last, where, should, after, here, we, our are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words our, where, we are repeated.
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