This is an analysis of the poem Sky Song that begins with:

The flower of the Alps told the seashell: "You're shining"
The seashell told the sea: "You echo"...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 010001101110100 01110110100 01101101000 0110101010100 0101110111010100 011110101111111100 0111101011011011100 01111101110101000010011010 01000111101000 111010011001110
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 689
  • Average number of words per stanza: 107
  • Amount of lines: 10
  • Average number of symbols per line: 68 (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; told, you're, than, me, i, less, your are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.

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