This is an analysis of the poem Something Better that begins with:
Let us walk upon the grasses ;
See ! our knees are steeped in slime ; ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a ba bc da d X ee ee fe f e ga ga ec e hi h iX dfXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,2,2,2,1,1,2,2,2,1,1,2,2,2,1,2,1,2,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101010 1111101 10101010 11010111 10101110 1110111 00100110 1111101 11101010 10100101 11111010 1010111 10101010 100111 11101010 0010011 10110010 10101100 00111010 0010101 11111110 1010101 10101010 1011100 11101010 0010101 10101010 00100101 11101010 1011111 10101010 1010101
- Amount of stanzas: 20
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 49
- Average number of words per stanza: 9
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
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 let is repeated.
The author used the same words on, let at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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