This is an analysis of the poem Our Death Is Our Wedding With Eternity that begins with:

Our death is our wedding with eternity.
What is the secret? 'God is One.'...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaaabXbbXccabddXbXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 21,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 11011000100 100101010 01111100010001 01010001001001 0010011001 11101000101 01001010010 0101110110 11010100101 11111111101100100 111110101011 000010001001 110100110101 110101010101 111011010101 111110100011 111111101 0000101100101 001001011010010101 111101010 010100100110010010
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1015
  • Average number of words per stanza: 199
  • Amount of lines: 21
  • Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; eyes, light, of are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines grapes, eyes, light are repeated).

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