This is an analysis of the poem Sense Of Something Coming that begins with:
I am like a flag in the center of open space.
I sense ahead the wind which is coming, and must live...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXbXac dXcX Xd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,4,2,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110100100101 1101011010111 01 1010011111 011110101011 010 01011101101111 101010111110101 111111 1111111101001 0011 0101101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 154
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 13
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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