This is an analysis of the poem Lines: The Cold Earth Slept Below that begins with:
The cold earth slept below;
Above the cold sky shone;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abccaab dbeeddb feggffe chcciih
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,7,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011101 010111 1101 00101 01011101 01011101 010101 010111 011111 0101 10111 11010111 1111101001 1011101 111001 001101 101101 10101 11010111 101000101101 1100101 011111010 0111101 0101 1111 01011111 1010100101 110110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 253
- Average number of words per stanza: 41
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- 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; of is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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