This is an analysis of the poem The Sonnets To Orpheus: Book 2: Xiii that begins with:
Be ahead of all parting, as though it already were
behind you, like the winter that has just gone by....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaX bcbc dde Xbe X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,1,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 00101101100100 011101011111 101110101110010 110110010101101 00101010011001 00010101011 10010010110101 0010111010101 011101111101 01001011101010 1101111010101 01101110101011 1000110101001 10011011001 01011010
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 155
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, and, all are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word be is repeated.
The author used the same word be at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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