This is an analysis of the poem Ode 1957: An Intellectual that begins with:
An intellectual is all the time showing off.
Lovers dissolve and become bewildered....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a b cdX ecd bd Xfca Xf g g ee X d ce hf XXh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,3,3,2,4,2,1,1,2,1,1,2,2,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101000101101 1001101010 101001101 1011001 010 1010001 1011111 011 10101 0100010 1101 0111011010 10101001101 0010001 110100 1011010010 11110111 111 1011010 11101 1001 100100110 001010010111 0111010 001001 11111010110 11011001 111111001 111000010101
- Amount of stanzas: 15
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 56
- Average number of words per stanza: 11
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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; love, you, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to is repeated.
The author used the same word love 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 you is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word you at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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