This is an analysis of the poem Verses For Pictures that begins with:
Day.
I am Day; I bring again... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bbcX X ddee f aagg X hhaa f iihh d bbcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 1111101 1110111 01010101 11011100 01 01111101 1011101 1010101 0010011 10 1011111 1111111 110101 1110101 10 1010111 1011101 1111001 1011111 10 1110111 1010101 1110101 110010 1 1111101 1010101 1011111 11010100
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 64
- Average number of words per stanza: 13
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (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; summer is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words spring, summer are repeated.
The author used the same words spring, summer at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases spring, summer connect the lines.
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