This is an analysis of the poem From The Long Sad Party that begins with:
Someone was saying
something about shadows covering the field, about...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Abac AXdc bXbdX dXcaX ddbXcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,5,5,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110 1001111000101 1111110110 10101 11110 10111111 11101001 1010010 01011 1111100101100 1 10111111001 11001 1110 010110001010101 10 010111101110 101001 01111 111100101101111 10 11111001010010 1 11101101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 151
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; someone is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word how is repeated.
The author used the same word someone at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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