This is an analysis of the poem Continual Conversation With A Silent Man that begins with:
The old brown hen and the old blue sky,
Between the two we live and die--...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aab abc bdc cXa acX dXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011110111 01011111 01011101 100010001 11111101 11010101 001010100 101101101 01010001 11010101 10110001 010010111 1011110111 00101101001 00110111 001010101 0111100101 01010101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 110
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; and, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word it is repeated.
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