This is an analysis of the poem Dialogue Between A Past And Present Poet that begins with:
PAST POET
I wrote of roses on a woman's breast,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AaXXbcXXXXdeac AXeedffcd AgdXgcXAbef
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,9,11,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110 1101010101 101101 11010011100 101110001 1101110 11010101010 01110101010 1111011 10011001 00110011 1111111 10010100011 101010011 0110 1110101101 1100100100 110010001 110011011101 11010100011 1010010010 1101010 1101010111 110 11000100 100110001 10010111 1010100 1111101 0110 010000101 1101110 1110001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 270
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 33
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- 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; of, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words you, or are repeated.
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