This is an analysis of the poem Something Has Fallen that begins with:
Something has fallen wordlessly
and holds still on the black driveway. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XX ab Xc dd eb fX ba bg Xd hd ij dj fd jk lh db bh Xb gb dh gi dh kg ec aj kl kj db lhXbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,5,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10110100 11110111 1101010 010101011 10110010 110111 000111 111101 00101 1111110 01010111 110010011 1110110 01111 1111001 010101 1001011 1010001 101101101 1110111 0111100 01011111 000111010 10111011 1100101 111111 01010111 1010110 1011110 01000101 0101001 001101 1010010 011001 110111 011111 10101 110010 1111111 01001101 1100101 101101 11111 1111001 1111010 1101110 111101 111111 01010001 1011 000110 110110 0001010 1111110 1011110 011101 111101 0010011 111110 01111110
- Amount of stanzas: 30
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 58
- Average number of words per stanza: 11
- Amount of lines: 60
- 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; you, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word your is repeated.
The author used the same words to, into at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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