This is an analysis of the poem Elemental Drifts that begins with:
ELEMENTAL drifts!
How I wish I could impress others as you have just been impressing... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abc XDXXefceXgX eXhgfcefDa Xicjiji kkcliXehk ih mcn dbcn Xij Xiecf jcb XmcX hjcod nch hXeibajnnhblXaodbi eX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,11,10,7,9,2,3,4,3,5,3,4,5,3,18,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101 11111011011110010 1 1110011001001 11100111 11110100100011100 1110111100 101110100110101 11010010110110 011100101011001011 10110 111010110011011 00101001111010110 1001 10101101000110101 1010 111001110110 11010110110110 1 1010010101010101 1001111110110100 110100111110 11100111 11101010101101 1110011111 111001010011101 1101010010110011 101010100101110110 1111011011010111 011111010 1011111100111 1101100101 01011111101011 011101111110010111 11110101011111 1101111001001111 010110101001 01110101010010111 01010010010110011110 100100111100101 1101111101101101010 1111101 101101010010100100 101011111 01111010110111 11011101 11001100010111110 11 11010110111111 111010011 111101110101 10101110 11100 11110110010001101 111 11110101101 11110101111110 11110111110 110111110101 111111110110 111101 11011111111 10111111010001001 10 1100101001 1111011110 1001111011110111 101111110011111111 1001 111001111 1101111101010111 11100111 111 111010101 1101110 101110101011 1001010100110 101110 1010010111010010 00101101001 101000101010101011 1111101001001011 011011111110110 10110 1111111010101 1111111100110 101011011111101 1 11110110 0101111101111 11111 11011111111010
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 303
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 95
- Average number of symbols per line: 51 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, where, of, as, and, that, to, me, you, not, much, just, we are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words as, where, you, i, see, just are repeated.
The author used the same words you, 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 mine is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word all 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 words/phrases gather, you connect the lines.
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