This is an analysis of the poem The Curse Of Kehama that begins with:
I charm thy life,
From the weapons of strife, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcbddedddddddceeeXedfdf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 26,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111 001001 01101 010101 00101 10101 010111 111111 11101 011011 110111 111111 1011111 11111 1011111 11111 11111 001101 111011 110011 0010011 1010011 111011 110110 1011011 010110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 737
- Average number of words per stanza: 136
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; thee is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words from, and are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines thee is repeated).
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