This is an analysis of the poem Shadow And Light Source Both that begins with:
How does a part of the world leave the world?
How does wetness leave water?...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aX Xa bc bd Xc Xdc XX dXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,3,2,3,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101001101 1110110 11011101101 110110101 1101111111 1101001 10110110100111 111110101 111101100 1101100111 1101010010 110111111 101 111111111 101111100101 10111011111 010010111010111 1001
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 90
- Average number of words per stanza: 17
- Amount of lines: 19
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; shadow, your, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word how is repeated.
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- summary of Shadow And Light Source Both;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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