This is an analysis of the poem The Threshold that begins with:
In their deepest caverns of limestone
They pictured the Gods of Food--... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdXdXXXd XbebceXXXXXe eaeafgXXXXXg XbebeeXeXXXe eaeafgXXXg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,12,12,12,10,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011010011 1100101 01011010 1010100 00101110 0101011 101010010 0110101 1110110 10101010010 100010010 1111001 0101010 1010111 1001110 0101001 1011010 101101 11001110 111101 1101010110 1110010 10110010 1110111 1111011 1011101 11110011 100010001 10010010010 100111011 1010110010 10110110 11110110 101110110 11101010010 1011111 01101010 01001001 10101110 11001001 111110010 1101111 11111110 0111101 01111100010 0111110010 1011110010 1110011101 1111011 111101 11110011 01010001 1010010110 10111011 101110010 101010110 101110010 111011
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 440
- Average number of words per stanza: 71
- Amount of lines: 58
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; and, of, ionia, things, all, that are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words gods, and are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ionia is repeated).
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