This is an analysis of the poem Heart's Needle that begins with:
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Child of my winter, born...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xabba cddc effe gddg dggd ahha Xidijdj akagbg dldili Xgggllg ggbmmb nnbccb dddbXd ddgddg aaliil Xigigg aocoo kpbpX ididd qbqXb ororr fdfdd Xjiji jfjf kgkg bkbk dcdc scsc Xdjdjlhkk gfgfccll gtgtkbjj dbdbiicc rlrXbkii iXiaffgg dhdhpphh iiiibbqq Xgigiaa rrll
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,4,4,4,4,7,6,6,7,6,6,6,6,6,6,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,4,4,4,4,4,9,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,7,6,6,6,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,7,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,7,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 101101 10110101 0101011101 1111 111111 11110111 0111111111 11010 111111 11011011 1011010101 0101 0111001 11010101 0111101101 1101 111111 011100011 00101001101 1111 110001 0110010101 01010010101 0101 1 110111101 11110001 01010011 1111101100 11010111 110111 110010101 110011101 111100101 1111111111 01101111 11111 11010111 0111000010 11110111 11101101001 011110110 10001 1 01010101 10010101 1111111 101111010 010111010 101101 11011101 10111111 101110 11101100 10110100 0111110 11011101 01001101 011101 11110101 11111111 011111 10110101 11111111 100101 11001011 01011110 011101 11111101 01111101 100101 111111110 110111000 0100011 11111111 11111101 1001010 01110011 11000111 111110 1 111111 010011 011111 11110101 0111 110101 110111 010100 10011101 0111 1111010 100011 1101010 010011101 0101 1010111 11111 010111 010011101 1111 111001 010101 110111 110111010 1101 010111 0001001 1101001 01111111 1011 111011 010111 010101 1100100111 0101 1 100110010 111111 1101010 101 110011111 111111 110101 1111 11111111 1110101 011111 1011 11010111 110111 110111 0011 11111101 110101 010011 0101 11111101 111101 010001 0111 1 101101 01010010 10011 1010011111 111100 11011101 110010001011 110110011 1101011 11111111 11101 001010001 11011 01111001 0111010111110 1111011110 100101 11010110 10011 11101010 010001 11011111 101011111010 111001010 111101 11011011 10111 111011101 011111 001101001 010111010111 111101001 100111 00111110 10101 101111111 110101 01111011 101001001011 101111101 00011 10110110 10111 011101110 011111 10011101 010111110001 11111101 110011 01111111 01111 111111111 1111011 11111101 010001010101 111111101 011101 110011111 10101 001001011 110111 11011101 001011110101 0101110111 1 100101 01101 11111111 1101 110101 111011 110111 1111 10100110 0110110 110100 111101 010101 111101 10010010 101101 111010 111011 1 11110111 1111 11110111 010111110 0101 11111011 011011 11110101 111111110 1010 11010101 1101 01000111 10110101 011101 1011101 11011101 11111111 1101 1101110 1101110 11011101 11010101 11110111 0011 01110111 1011001 10110111 11010101 01011 11001101 110011 11111001 1101 100011111 111101110 11110100 11110 010100101 110111 01011111 1101 100101 110010001 11110001 10110101 1001111 111111 11010111 1111 01111101 111111 1101 111111101 01111111 11011101 1111 01001101 1100 11110101 01111101 110111 1101 01010100 11011101 1010001 110111 11111111 11110111 111100 1 111110 1011011 011101 10110101 011110 1111 111101 11101001 011111 01110101 11010111 1101 111101 11010011 0101 10011111 010010101 1100 110100 010101 110001 01111101 101100101 0011 1011 1010100 011101 11111101 10110111 1111 1111110 11011111 100111 01011101 110011 0101 010101 1101101 110001 01100101 11100100 1111 10110 01010101 011101 11011101 11111100 0101 0110110 110100111 101101 11010101 110101010 11101 11010010 01010111 0101001 0101101 0101010010 101001 111111 11100111 1110111 11010111 111100011 1101 101101 11110101 011101 10110001 1111001010 1111 101111 01010101 100101 11110101 111101 0011 111011 11010101 010101 11001101 01011111 1101 110101 11010101 001101 110100001 10011101 1011 100101 01010101 1011010 01011111 10010111 11110 110101 110011101 1100110 100100110 01010101 1111010 010101 01110011 10111 11111001 11011101 1111 1 010101001 01101 0101000101 111101 110111010 10111 101110010 010101 11110101 11001010 11011111 1101110 0101010010 0001011 111111110 110111 1101001110 11001001 111111110 110111 010100101 1111001 010110111 1011001 10101101 110101 1101001010 111111 01111111 111101 11010101 101001 10111011 0111110 11110101 1111110
- Amount of stanzas: 80
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 165
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 443
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, and, to, you, ding, her, for, your, we, his are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words by, the, or, you, i, stands are repeated.
The author used the same word the 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 us is repeated).
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