This is an analysis of the poem [i Saw His Round Mouth's Crimson] that begins with:
[I saw his round mouth's crimson deepen as it fell],
Like a Sun, in his last deep hour;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110111010101 101001110 100100010011 1011110 101101010001 1001 0111010111 01001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 302
- Average number of words per stanza: 54
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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