This is an analysis of the poem Before The Flood that begins with:
Why did he promise me
that we would build ourselves...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbcXdXdXbefghfigagiXcebXghXe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 29,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101101 111101 111101 101001 111101 01010110 00100010 10010 0101111 0101010 11110101 111110 110101 110111 001110 0101111 111111 11011101 1101111 101101 1101011 1110011 1111110 110101 1101111 1111001 111111 111101 1010010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 726
- Average number of words per stanza: 148
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (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; he, that, we are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ourselves is repeated).
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