This is an analysis of the poem Amaturus that begins with:
Somewhere beneath the sun,
These quivering heart-strings prove it,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababccccbdbdXeXeeeeXfgfghfhfgiXijdjdXkXkXeaeakaka
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 49,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110101 11001110 111101 1101010 1111010 010111 1101010 110101 111111 0111010 110101 1101010 0101110 100111 11010100 111101 101111 0111010 111101 1111010 1111010 1101001 1111110 1111001 111101 11001010 010111 1100010 1111110 110001 0101100 011111 111101 1101010 110110 1011010 1101010 010011 1111010 111001 111101 0101010 110101 1111110 1111111 010111 1101011 010101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 712
- Average number of words per stanza: 124
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; thee is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words nor, and are repeated.
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