This is an analysis of the poem The Treadmill Song that begins with:
The stars are rolling in the sky,
The earth rolls on below,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbdaea fdgdgfgf cebefdgd dhdhhiai cfXfefXf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01110001 011101 111101001 010111 11011101 110101 11111101 110001 111111101 111101 01011101 111101 11110101 1010101 11010111 110101 11110101 010101 11000101 110101 11011101 110101 01010101 011101 11010111 110101 11010101 111101 11010101 011101 11100101 101001 110100101 111101 01010111 011111 01011111 111101 11111101 011011
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 255
- Average number of words per stanza: 50
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; to, s are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and are repeated.
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