This is an analysis of the poem Posterity's Award that begins with:
I'd long been dead, but I returned to earth.
Some small affairs posterity was making... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcc dbdbee fdfddd ededgg dXdffX Xbfbee hihijj egXgkk
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101110101 11010100110 0101110111 01011101010 0111011111 0101110111 1001010111 10010101010 0100010111 10010011110 0100011101 1101110101 0111010111 01011110010 1011000111 11111100010 1111010101 1001110001 1011110101 11010101010 1111110101 01010110110 1001010011 1101010101 1101001111 10001101010 1100110111 01010001010 11101110101 1111001111 1000010101 01110111010 1111110101 01111110010 0101010001 0111110101 10111011101 11110101010 0111110011 11000111010 0101010111 1001000101 1101010101 01010111010 01100000101 11011111101 0101110101 0101111111
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 260
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; ' is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words ', to are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase ' connects the lines.
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