This is an analysis of the poem Not To The Staring Day that begins with:
Not to the staring Day,
For all the importunate questionings he pursues... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xabcadaefaaggcaba chhcccgXabicXjbkjbkacXb ggehecaahhhedljlgXaXfXXhaagbdji
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 17,23,31,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 100101 1101000100101 0011001 1111011101 011100 1001011101 101110001 11010111 0100010101 11110101011 11110100 1001000101001 01110101001 01010010101 1101000101 11001 0101110101 1101 001010001 1001010101 100010001 0101110101 110111 01011101001 1111 01011100100 1001000100 1001010100 01010010101 11110110 1010010010111 11010001 010100001001 1100101010010 10110101 1101110001 01111110 1101010111 010101 10010010101 1101111101 01011101 01000100101 101101 100011000101 0011100101 11110001 0101010011 1101101 10010001001 111101 1101110001 1100100101001 0100101 100100001101 110100001 110101010101 01010000 00110111 10010100010 1111000111 1111000111 11000101 1111010 1001011110 010000 11010111 01001110101 010100 01000100100
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 670
- Average number of words per stanza: 112
- Amount of lines: 70
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- 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; of, they, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, their, whose are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase night connects the lines.
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