This is an analysis of the poem Interlude: Songs Out Of Sorrow that begins with:
I. Spirit's House
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Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bcddeeddcee b ddaffagaghhcb f XdfdXfXfii X ffggffii e ccXc jdXd fXbX X jkak ehgh X ggeebcXjjcb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,11,1,13,1,10,1,8,1,4,4,4,1,4,4,1,11,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 1101 01010100 1010111 1010101 1010111 110011111 01010101 11110101 11100111 11010100 1010111 11111101 1100 11110110 01110001 11110101 11001101 100110111 101111001 11110101 10010001 11110101 10011111 11001101 01110110 01110100 110 01110111 01010111 01110101 11010101 01110111 10000111 11010100 11010111 01111111 11110101 110 11110111 01010001 11110101 01110101 11111001 11110101 10110101 11000111 1001001 00011101 11110101 11010101 01110101 11110011 01110101 110111010 01110101 10101110111 110101010 11111100 1101001110 111 11011001 1111101 11110100 110101 11010111 11110101 11110111 110111 110 0110101 0110101 0111101 1011111 0111100 01111111 10110111 01011101 01010100 11010100
- Amount of stanzas: 24
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 105
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 86
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; stone, i, my, from are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words from, a are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word mastery at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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