This is an analysis of the poem Implications Of One Plus One that begins with:

Sometimes we collide, tectonic plates merging,
continents shoving, crumpling down into the molten ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abaX Xcab accX XbXX adae cfXd fcaXXecab
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01101010110 1001010100010 10101001110 10100110010 011111110 10110100010 1110010010100 111011010001 01110010010 1001010110 1111000010 1011011001 0111110110 0011001011 10111101 1010101011 1111110110 100100100111 1110110110 010100110101 01110110101 1110101110 00110100010 011100011 10010110010 111111011 001111110 100101011 111101010001 001010100001 1010011010001000 10010010001
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 173
  • Average number of words per stanza: 29
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, sometimes, you, and, one, it are repeated.

    The author used the same word sometimes at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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