This is an analysis of the poem Consider The Ravens that begins with:
Lord, according to thy words,
I have considered thy birds;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddee ffgghhaaiicc bbXXcc eejjcckk llmmnneXdd jjbbnnXbbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,12,6,8,10,10,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010011 1101011 111110 110010101 1010111 1111111 1011111 1111111 1010111 1001111 010011111 1010111001 00111111 11111111 1010011111 1110111011 10011111 11011001011 110110101 0101111011 011010111 10111101 110101011 01011011 1010011010 111011111 0100010110 0101011110 11111111 10010101 1111011011 1111011011 100011111 111110001 101010 0100011 111101010 111111110 111101011 1001101 011011 1011111 1111111 0110110 1011101 10101101 011111001 110110101 10110111 01010101 1100011 1010011 01011001 1101011 1110011
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 278
- Average number of words per stanza: 54
- Amount of lines: 55
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; they, when, and, with are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, when are repeated.
The author used the same word it 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 it, him are repeated).
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