This is an analysis of the poem The Year's Awakening that begins with:
How do you know that the pilgrim track
Along the belting zodiac... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccXXdD ccXXeeffdD
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111110101 01010101 110100101 011100101 100011101 110100101 1101101001 110011000 110011111 1111 11111101 10110111 010101000 01011101 11110101 11111101 10010101 11111111 11011111 1111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 343
- Average number of words per stanza: 67
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; how, you, know are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word how is repeated.
The author used the same word how at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines know is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word know at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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