This is an analysis of the poem Lemures that begins with:
In Nineveh
And beyond Nineveh ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabc ddc XdX XbXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,3,3,7,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0100 101100 001 1001 01010 001 11000001 0110110 1011 110 11110110 1001 10111 011110110 11010110 0110010 01001100
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 99
- Average number of words per stanza: 19
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word in is repeated.
The author used the same word in 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 nineveh is repeated).
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- summary of Lemures;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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