This is an analysis of the poem Lover's Gifts Lviii: Things Throng And Laugh that begins with:

Things throng and laugh loud in the sky; the sands and dust dance
and whirl like children. Man's mind is aroused by their shouts; his...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbXXcdaXccXcdcX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111100101111 11110110011110 110001101 111000100111 10101110100011 1110100101 10110001101000 101010111010100 1111010111110 1101010010001001 11111010100101 0101011001001 11001001000111 11111010010100 101110011001011 01
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 949
  • Average number of words per stanza: 170
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 58 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 11
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, in, to, they, of are repeated.

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