This is an analysis of the poem To The Rock That Will Be A Cornerstone Of The House that begins with:
Old garden of grayish and ochre lichen,
How long a rime since the brown people who have vanished from...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXcdeXXXafccad feXfXaedcbd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,11,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11001011010 11011011011100 1 11001111011 10010110100110 110100000100 110101010101010 101100100 10011001011100 100011011 110101110111 1 1111111111 111111010100010 1010110011 1011010111010 1101111110 1101011101010 100000010 11010101111010 101010101 10010101000010 01000101010 1101100111011 0100101110 111000111111111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 595
- Average number of words per stanza: 111
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; and, of are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines you is repeated).
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