This is an analysis of the poem Orpheus Alone that begins with:
It was an adventure much could be made of: a walk
On the shores of the darkest known river,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcadeacfdghhdcdddihdfgiXfjdbdcidejigdhiXhdikhffafXfXXaikj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 58,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0110101101001 1010010110 010101011101 110101110001 1001100101 110011011011 00101000111 0111111101001 1110110101001 010101010101 01001010010101 10011110011 1010010111 01010011001 110101101010 1100111001010 101011111011 11110110011 011010001101001 110110101110 11101101001 001001001101 11000001110 1001011011 0010011100 010110101001 1101111011110 010011100101 1110101001110 001011010111 11100010011 1111101111 0101001011 111011111011 111001000100101 11001110101 1110010010111 10011110101 111010110 1110110101110 10001101100100 0100101100001 111101000111 011010011010 01111101001001 1010010011011 1011010010101 011101101001 101011001 01100101101 1001010100111 00101101001 1001010010001 01011010010 01110011011 11011110001101 101001100111 0100101100011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2943
- Average number of words per stanza: 549
- Amount of lines: 58
- Average number of symbols per line: 50 (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; of, her, and, came, with are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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- summary of Orpheus Alone;
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- idea of the verse;
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