This is an analysis of the poem Bi-Focal that begins with:
Sometimes up out of this land
a legend begins to move. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcb Xdda Xefe gdfc Xdgd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0111001 0100101 000101 010101 1000110 0100101 10010110 110101 1101010 111000 110101 01111 110101 1100101 0100101 10101101 101101 111101 1001001 10100
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 105
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 21 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; it is repeated.
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