This is an analysis of the poem Things Recalled At Night that begins with:
All that rainfall
Laid out in the rainfall, all those dead bodies...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbbbddbebb XfghebibfcfXcXhficgacbXfc X X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,25,1,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111 11001111110 1010110111 10000111100111 01001 1011001010111111 1010010111010 11010010 1101001011101 111110001 111010 1011111010 01010010101 11111010100010 11101 1110010001 1010010101011001 1110111110 111101 1101011 11011010010 01101 1101011010010 001100101100 0110010011111 01111 1000010011 111100111010 111 10010111 1011011 111111011 00111010110101 110010010101101 01011 11101111111110 11111 100100101111100001000100101010 010110010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 490
- Average number of words per stanza: 74
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; all, those, not, burning are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word those is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines attendants, pyres are repeated).
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