This is an analysis of the poem Words that begins with:

Yesterday, I was collecting words.
One was up there, sitting in the bo tree,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: a bXXXaXXXbaaXAA
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,14,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: rondeau
  • Metre: 101110101 1111100011 01010010 11100011 01011000101 0111001 0111101 011110 001001001 100101001110101 0101 0101 1111101111001 111011 111011
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 244
  • Average number of words per stanza: 50
  • Amount of lines: 15
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, of are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, the, i are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines words is repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word words at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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