This is an analysis of the poem Rendezvous With America that begins with:

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Time unhinged the gates...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: a bcdeeef ggeg chXiXXgXjkX X eebb eeee llmm bbaa aaee X ceebeeeee cinnd noee neeepn X gdXd ecbc ecec hqlq ggeg a CXRkegc CXRggpe CXRbefk CXRegec CXRgklg a Xaca ppXg bbeb ffsf ttet X elokkf ekmogcgcX gflXf X Nuelu elqtrrdgdg Njeejqeteeqtsaa NFgsfgsggggeaea
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,7,4,11,1,4,4,4,4,4,1,9,5,4,6,1,4,4,4,4,4,1,7,7,7,7,7,1,4,4,4,4,4,1,6,9,5,1,5,10,15,22,1,20,1,16,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 1 10101 010111111010 110101001011 1000100010 1001100 001010100 01011010110 1001 11010 01001 110010 010001011000011 10101110011010 100100101100 100100111 10010110 10001000110 10010110 10010110 10000100111010 100010011001 10000100110 1 10010101 11111111 01011101 11010101 10011111 11111101 11110101 110101101 10010111 1100010001 11010101 11011001 10010101 11010101 11011111 11011101 10011100 01011111 11010101 01010101 1 000100000101 01001 0100010 010100 010101 010010 01001 0101010 001100100 00010000101 111010 11010100 1011010 100001010 0100 0100001110 0110101 011011 0100 11010010001001010 001001000010010110 0101001100101 010100100001010010 0100 1 1101000101 11100101001010 01110111000 01010111001 1101000101 10101010101 0111010101 01010110101 1101000101 1111100101001 01010110100 1011101101101 110100010100 1011010001011 0111010101 111010101001 1101000101 111000101101 0111011101 11101110101 1 0111 1010100 111 10110010100011 1001000100001001 1010001001001010 10010010000101011 0111 1010100 111 11001001001000010 100100100100100111 010100111001000101 101001010010001 0111 101010 111 1101001100011100 1011001000010000101010 111011000001001010 101111010010110101 0111 1010100 111 01011001000011 100010001001000011 101011001000100110 1100010010011 0111 1010100 111 110101100011101 1001001001000010001 1100100110100010 101101010010001 1 0100110101 11001110101 1001010101 0101010001 01001101001 1101010101 1101110100 0101010101 0100110101 1101010111 1100010110 1100010001 01001101010 01010101010 1101010101 00010110010 0100110111 11010101001 1101100101 0101010101 1 01 101 100110110100 10000110110011 100100101 1100010010 101001010101001 101111001110 101010100100 0100 10101110001 101010100101 1011101001010 1010001101001 1010100100010 1 1010101110 100100111 1011101 10100011110 1 11010100100 1101 101101 10111 1101011111 110101 1001011111 1 1 010101 0111000111 010001111010 0101111111 01001111110 1111010111 11010100100 1101 11011111 1101001101 1101 10110111 0101001 010100111 110101 110111010101 1 1 11010101 111101 0111 11010100100 0100010 0101001101 01011101 11010 1 101011101 0101 1101000101 11010000101 1101000111 0101 10101 11010 0111 1101 10111 1 1 11101010 11010111011101 0100010 1 01111 00100010100010 11110010100100 001010 101010 101010 101010 10100100010 001000110100 1011000011 0010100101 101001010101 00111001001 101000100111 00100010011 1010101011 0010100101 101010101 00100100101 101010011 1 01111 001010100101 1010110000101 01111 00100010100010 01001 1010101010 1010111011 110101010 1010001011 110010100 10001101011 1110100101011 11010101010 10101001011 1001100111010
  • Amount of stanzas: 46
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 240
  • Average number of words per stanza: 35
  • Amount of lines: 259
  • Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more 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; and, of, from, with, man's, in, her, or are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words who, the, america, a, and, or, strikes are repeated.

    The author used the same words these, into, america, i, a at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines man's is repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase america connects the lines.

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