This is an analysis of the poem Drought that begins with:
My road is fenced with the bleached, white bones
And strewn with the blind, white sand, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd baba bebe bbbb afaf bgbg chch ijijXijij
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 110100111 1100111 0110100111 10100101 1010010101 0111011 10100100101 1010101 11100111111 111000101 1110011101 0101111 1110101101 11100111 0010110111 1111101 011101111 0111101 0110100101 10100111 110110111 1111001 1011110101 10100111 110101001 00100101 11111111001 11110111 1100100111 1011111 1100100111 1011111 011101101 0101011 110110001 11111001 1110111111 11011101 110100111 1011101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 177
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- 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; and, i, have are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words on, and, i, the are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Drought;
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