This is an analysis of the poem Writing In The Afterlife that begins with:
I imagined the atmosphere would be clear,
shot with pristine light,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcX adcb efgX eXab edfd gXcX cebd cddg Xc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10100101101 10101 101001 011001010101 101100101 11110101 11010010100 111001010 1111111001 00101101010 1111111010 1011101011 1110101000101 10100101 001010011001 11110011 1111101 110100101 100111011100 11010101 1001010011010 1100101010 10101010 111101010 011101011 1111001101 1101010 01110011101 10011110111 10101011 0101001011 11011011010 10111101 11010101011001
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 144
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 34
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, as are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word think is repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines process is repeated).
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