This is an analysis of the poem From The Woolworth Tower that begins with:

Vivid with love, eager for greater beauty
Out of the night we come ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbcdefaggfhdg f XdehgdijaXdgggdfkjhadgdef ddgfekXXflidfggikgghdlcXcfXfedcadeg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,1,25,35,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10011011010 100111 0001001011 0101110 101011 10010101 01110 10110110 1101010 1010111 100101 1101 100010101 10100101011 01010 11101101001 1111 11001 11111 110101001001 11111 1111101 11101001 011100111010 10010010011 1101 01011100101 1111010011 11110110 0111011001 11101100101 11110101 1010110101 10110111 010100010 10101 1100010 1011010 1001010001 11011101 1101000100011 0110101001 01111010 0101 10010010 01011010010 1001001010 1000101001 10101 100101 0100100100011 1101 10111011 100100 11011110 1001011 01001001 01101010 01101010 100111 100101 1010001101 01001 11010 01011 101101 010 110010001 011 110111 1100100100 1111 1010 10
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 464
  • Average number of words per stanza: 82
  • Amount of lines: 74
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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, us are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word why is repeated.

    The author used the same word we at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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