This is an analysis of the poem From The Flats. that begins with:
What heartache -- ne'er a hill!
Inexorable, vapid, vague and chill... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccdd eeXaffdd eXcXgghh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 111101 1100010111 0111011101 0111111111 1011010111 110100111001 1111011101 110101 101101 1100010111 0111011110 1101010111 1101110101 0101010101 0101010111 100101 111111 1111110110 1101110101 010010010100 11001011101 1001100101 1101000101 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 322
- Average number of words per stanza: 57
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; no is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word no is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word same at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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