This is an analysis of the poem Negative that begins with:
Negative
Against a grayisch sky...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X XXX ab XXa ac dXcX bXd XX X XXX XX XXX XX XXXX XXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,3,2,3,2,4,3,2,1,3,2,3,2,4,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100 010101 0101 11101 1011001 011010110 1111111 1110011010 111111010 11101 1100101010 111110010 11010111 0110010 111001 111100100010 0101 110101 0100101101100 11100 100 1110 1011010 11110 11010110 1011001100100 110101011 1001100 11000111001 101010 11100010 1001100111 10011101100 10010110 101010 11111011100 101010 101011
- Amount of stanzas: 15
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 87
- Average number of words per stanza: 14
- Amount of lines: 38
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- 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; na is repeated.
The author used the same words and, na at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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