This is an analysis of the poem Decaying Lambskins that begins with:
After all, we also stand on a height. Our blood and our culture
have passed the flood-marks of any world...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdaXXXcedfXfXccgeXcc XXcbXceXgc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 22,10,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011101101111110 110110101 100111011100101 101011101 1101110010110110 011001100110 11011101001101 1000010111100 01010100110 10111111111000111 111001 110 0111111100010010 1101001010 001010001011110101 110010 1111010101010100 11110101111 101011110010101 011001010010 011101011110110 110001011100 111100011111010001 1111011010100101 00101001 1111010010011011 11101111000 0101011101001101 110001111111 100010010010011011 110010010111010101 110110111100
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 823
- Average number of words per stanza: 140
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 50 (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; our, of, but, not, men, their are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word centuries at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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