This is an analysis of the poem The Antagonists that begins with:
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Caverns mouthed with blackness more than night,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbcdadaededfgfgfbfbhghg cXc ahX hijjhXdfXXididkikkgkXhdhdgllbbgfalalachchiich iidmmdffgiig XchfhkkmiifmXdXdibllkkiaabddXbbbbblbbllliilieiffeiilli
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 25,3,3,45,12,54,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 101010111 10101010010 101011101 111110101010 100010101 100010101 111011101 10101111101 1010100001 101000101 1000101001 10011101110101 011001 001001 11001 1010001 00101 001001 101001 11001 111010001 1010010010 010111011 10100110 11000010 11001010 11110100010 1100001 11001110 1011011 101010 0111 0010101 1111 1010 10111010 0101010 100101 111100 110010 1010101 1010101 1010101 100111 011001 101001 11000 1001110111 11011100010 110011010101 11100101110 10000101 101011010 1010111 10101010 10101110 1010101 10001 01010111 1000101 1010 10100101 1101101 101001001110 1011001001 11001010 11101001 010011110 01001001 101001110 11001011 101010001 01001101 101011010 1101 01001 000111 1101 10111 1001 1101 10111 11011 010110 100001 111101 1011010 1 11110101010 10110011101 11001000101 1101010111 0111110111 001001110101 11011111 1100110111 0101011101 111101 1111011101 110100100110 11010010111 100100010 110101 1011110001 0111110101 0100010101 1101010101 01011011111 1101010101 110111110111 0111000101 11000010101 110011001001 00111011001 1011010101 1101011101 11000101101 00110100101 10010101011 1110010001 1011000101 0101101101 01010101 01111100101 110101 0111010111 010111 01010000111 1101010101 1001011 011101 101101 0101010111 1100110111 1111100010 0011010011 11010100101 1111011101 1001011101 1001
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 700
- Average number of words per stanza: 125
- Amount of lines: 142
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- 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; of, and, from, but, her, that are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, and, from, more, the are 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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