This is an analysis of the poem Sisters In Arms that begins with:
The edge of our bed was a wide grid
where your fifteen-year-old daughter was hanging ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcaXdcaeefaegfe eahddiXiajklgXcjkgbaXXXcXeicada bjgdgc XbifjXXllcch
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,31,6,12,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010111011 11011110110 111011 01011001 1001001001 1110101010010 10111011 01010011 1111010101 0101101110 1101001110010 001000111 1111010010 11010001 111010 001100110 11010011010 11010110101 11101001 011110010110 01110 0011110010001 101101001100 111010110001 10101001100011 10110101 11100101 101010 1001111010 1100110100 11111011100101 10101 1011101011 11111011 1101101100010 0001110 1101011110 1111011 1010111 1110110 11 110010010 111110001 11011001 1101010 111010110 1101111 11000101100 110010011 111110 11001101010 0011 010010 1000101001 01001110 01011001 1111010010 100111 1001010 0010010010 1110 1101110 101001 1001110110 101001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 581
- Average number of words per stanza: 105
- Amount of lines: 65
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
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- summary of Sisters In Arms;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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