This is an analysis of the poem We Are As The Flute that begins with:
We are as the flute, and the music in us is from thee;
we are as the mountain and the echo in us is from thee. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aa baX Xa cd Xeb dXcXbe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,3,2,2,3,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101101001001 111010101001001 1111001010100101 1100101001 111100110 111111011 11101010011 11110001101010 11010110110101000 111101101010 010011110 10010010 11010100 101001 1110011101 110111111101011 11010001100010
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 106
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, we, thee, from, in, as are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words we, our are repeated.
The author used the same word we 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 thee is repeated).
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