This is an analysis of the poem Sitting by a Bush in Broad Sunlight that begins with:
When I spread out my hand here today,
I catch no more than a ray...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccXX ddee ffgg ddhh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111101 1111101 010011110 110010010 111111001 11101001 101111010 11011010 10111011 11011101 01101111 11011001 1101111 11101101 101011001 101001101 11101011 01101001 10101111 01001111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 134
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; one, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word god at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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