This is an analysis of the poem From Pent-Up Aching Rivers that begins with:
FROM pent-up, aching rivers;
From that of myself, without which I were nothing;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdXdcbbbdXefghfdijabaXbbikbjbbgaglXljjebgXbllkglldXgaXedidhaXfXjXdgXfXbbXdagXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 80,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0111010 010110111010 0111010010100100111 011 011110010010 100101010 10010011010101110 10010011010 1001001110010 1110110101000010 1110101111000101011 1110101 00101111111 010100101100 1010110111100010 10011 1001100110110 10100101000100101 10010110111110010 10010101 10001010101100 010011100110010 001010110001001 001010010011 001100101011010 010010100101010 0101001000110 01010100011100101 10110 011101011011100 10 0011111111110110 01010100101110 010 0101000101000100100 11111111001 1111101000111 1111111010011110011 1110 11001110100011110 11 010011101011000100 01001000000101000101 111111111111 10 111001111 1110100101 111110001101111 101101101101110101 11000101 0010010110100 01000101010101010 101 01011100111001110 0 010011001 010001111011 0100101110100011 10 010001010001 010010111011011 0011001101110010 11111 0010110101110 0011011111011100 11 0100110100101011 0100010010100100010 01 001100111110 001001001 00101101 0111010100110 001101001111111010 01 1010110101101 001001011101 0010101010101 101110111100111 11101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 4209
- Average number of words per stanza: 676
- Amount of lines: 80
- Average number of symbols per line: 52 (very long strings)
- 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; i, from, singing, o, you, of, and, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words from, singing, o, of, the, to are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines lawless is repeated).
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