This is an analysis of the poem Covering Two Years that begins with:
This nothingness that feeds upon itself:
Pencils that turn to water in the hand,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXXaX XbaaXbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,7,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0100110101 1011010001 1001010001 11000111 1101010101 10001111101 10100110 11011001110101 011011000101 11000100101101 1111100111010 1101000101 101100010101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 292
- Average number of words per stanza: 52
- Amount of lines: 13
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; in, that, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
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