This is an analysis of the poem Alone that begins with:
Lying, thinking
Last night...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXbcaadDC CDC eXXeecDdC CDC bfafacdDCXCDC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,3,9,3,13,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010 11 1011101 1100110 111011 111011 1110101 1111 1111 1101101 01101 1111111 1101101 111101 010111 1111110 110101 1101010 011101 1111 1111 1101101 01101 1111111 1101101 1011010 111111 111100 010101 01010100 111101 0111 1111 1101101 01101 1111111 1101101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 141
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 37
- Average number of symbols per line: 22 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; nobody, alone are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words their, the are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines nobody, alone are repeated).
The poet repeated the same word alone at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase alone connects the lines.
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