This is an analysis of the poem A Sketch For A Modern Love Poem that begins with:
And yet whiteness
can be best described by greyness ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbcd efgc aebdg XedgXegX gbgfgXdddafXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,5,8,13,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110 10101110 01101 110 0010 11001 10001001 101011 110110 1110 1001 1100111 0100010 0111 01100 01001 01010 1000 010101 0101 11011 0101001010 0010 11010 0100101 01 010 001001 11110 010010 110 10 01 0001001 0010110
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 140
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 35
- Average number of symbols per line: 19 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, a, of are repeated.
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