This is an analysis of the poem Typhoon Signal No. 1 that begins with:
This is where the typhoon starts—
inside the fourth paragraph,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXb XXX abX cac cde XcXXede
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,7,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0010111 0101101 110101 1010101 1001011101 011011001 1101101 110101 1110111 101110 10111 1110010101 1100101 101111 10111011 10100101 101110 001011011 1110001 011010100 01011
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 89
- Average number of words per stanza: 15
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; where, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word where is repeated.
The author used the same word where at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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