This is an analysis of the poem Thanks that begins with:
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with the night falling we are saying thank you ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abccXbddc ebXb bcXbbXXb fbfbafXbec
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,4,8,10,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10 00110111011 11101010010010 111010011 01110101101 1111 11101010100 101010101 01010 10010011010010 10100111011 1001001 1011110111011 10101111011 011100101101010 010011001101 101011111011 001111011 001000010101 10110101 111101111 0010010011 1110111011 001010101010 011111011 00110111001 001010101 11101110110 0111100111011 111011110 1100
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 305
- Average number of words per stanza: 59
- Amount of lines: 31
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; we, in, and, thank, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words we, after, in, with are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines you is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word you at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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