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

EARTH, round, rolling, compact--suns, moons, animals--all these are
words to be said;... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXcb debfg ddf dhXij dXjaj ddak lmd dXmXdg nbchocgf Xaa keedhh nlmXpdq cqrqhq ddcdhXXbchre efrdjoXdmfjmd orbf pppXpphf gg bbfhX iorr jjjjjqeXmr fhgriLhlhliL sicd Xrlmlhs hb hedr Xcaaahhh ddXr dhb dlehea eXgdqqfj
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,3,5,5,4,3,6,8,3,6,7,6,12,13,4,8,2,5,4,10,12,4,7,2,4,8,4,3,6,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 11101011100111 1001 1001001001010001010 0010 011111001 0110110011011 11101 111101001011001 11 110011101 01101100110101 10111 10111101011 1010111001 00110101010111011 10011 100110100100111010 1 111010111 111101001100100000 11101000 100100110100111 110101011 0101001010101011 1010 011100110111101 1011010 01010101001001001 01101011110110 1001 01010010011 011011101 0111011011000100 1 0011100100111000111 111001 0111010010001 01001010001111101 10 11110100011 110111101001100 010010011010001110110 11110111101011101 01010101010111 101001 0111110101 0111101 011110 0101011010 1111011010 111000011010010 101001010111 010101010101111 011101001101001001 0101101 101001001010100100 1011 01001010100101001 10100100 1011010011101 00100100100111010 1 0111111101111010 111 100111111101010111 1 000100010 0010100010 0010001010010010110 10 01001011101001 00101011000101 001000011010100001 1111111011101 101001110100001010 11100 111101010101 1001011110001011 111111010 100101010101001 1001110101010010 100110000111001000 011100 0010000101101010 1001 0010100001001001001 0011110100100101000 1 0110001111000100 1001010010011110100 1010 01010101010110110 11000101 0101100101011101 1011100111101011 10011001010 1111101001010100 01101010101010100 0101001101110010101 1101011010011110 111010001010 0110110110101101 001110011 010111010101010011 00111001111 010111111111010101 10 111111101111001 111111001101 111110101001 11001111000110010 01101101010100 111010101011 1111101011 0100010111101 01000010111101 010000100111101 010001111101 0100010111101 01000101111010101 001000010001000010110 1001001 111101101011010110 1010001 11011100010110110 01 11010111101001101 011110 111011011011110110 01 11110110010010100101 010001 110110100101110001 0100100101001 0101010001000101001010 01 1110101101010111 011 0011010111001110 010 111010110110010011 1111110010101000010 10001 01111010010100100 1 0111101010011110 1 1111101010101 0011010101 11101010111110 110101001010 1101001000010 101011 0100110011011110011 0011101010001010010 1110100101101 0101110010110101 10100101011111101 1010101010100101 11001110100 10100110100 0001001001111010 110100101101001 0101100100110111 01111000100101011 1110101110100111 01 1010110011110101 1110 11101001 1100010011111 111101100001 011011100100101 10010011010101101 11010101101011101 01101 110110101111011 1101010010101111 111001101001 110111011101111 0111111010111 110111010100
  • Amount of stanzas: 31
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 317
  • Average number of words per stanza: 51
  • Amount of lines: 197
  • Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; those, words, my, not, i, to, of, fail, sisters, her, from, or, no, and, you, for, one, comes, back, most, him, which, best, as, before, they, souls, it are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, they, will, of, with, duly, from, for, unless, i, my, if, work are repeated.

    The author used the same words were, the, whoever, i 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 words, there, out, sisters, you, one, him, before, it are repeated).

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

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase underneath connects the lines.

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