This is an analysis of the poem To A Noisy Contemporary that begins with:
Your ego’s bad dream drums that vision
Encountered on page one, pages three to eighty-nine. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaba cc bdXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,2,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110111110 0101111010101 10111011101 111010101010101 00100101010101 001000101010001 111010101001 1110101000101 1100001011000010 1110101000101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 170
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 10
- 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; of is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word of is repeated.
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