This is an analysis of the poem Daedalus And Icarus that begins with:
Daedalus says:
Go on sonny but remember that you are walking and not flying...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: A XXbXa A cdXc A effX A gabc h edfgij h kXejikeXf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,5,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,6,1,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1001 11101010111101110 01111100111101011 111010101010 1111001 01010111100 1101 0111101101 1101011010101 011100010 111101001001 1001 1000110100101 11001011111101 11000101110001 010100111011 1101 11100010110 11101111111 11011010111110 11010011001 010000100 11101111 01101001001111 10101001001 1010101101 111001001101 11000010 1010 11110110111110100 0101110100110101010 1101010111010001101 0100010001011 11101101 101 10101110011001 111
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 116
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 37
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; of is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
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