This is an analysis of the poem Earth The Healer, Earth The Keeper that begins with:
So swift the hours are moving
Unto the time unproved:... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXb bcbc dede XfXf bbbb abXb gXgg hihi hghg ajaj XbXb klml XnXn abab abab obob kXmp hphp XqXq
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010110 100101 1111100 1111010 1111110 011101 0111010 1011101 0111011 011101 1111111 110111 0111110 011111 0101100 010101 1101010 1011101 1111010 111101 1001010 010101 1001010 010101 1101010 110101 11010100 100101 1011010 111111 0101010 010101 0111010 111101 0100010 010001 1111110 111111 1101010 010111 110111 1011101 0111010 010001 1111010 1111001 1101011 1100101 0111110 101111 1101110 1010011 1111110 110101 10111110 111101 1111010 101101 1101010 1011001 1111110 1111111 1101110 110111 1111110 111101 1101011 110101 1101110 011101 1101010 110101 1101110 1011101 0111010 101111
- Amount of stanzas: 19
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 113
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 76
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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; that, of, for are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words farewell, is, the, a, to, love, so are repeated.
The author used the same words and, peace at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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