This is an analysis of the poem Delusion Of Saints that begins with:
The old pagan burials, uninscribed rock,
Secret-keeping mounds,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXXbacaXbXcddXabXcXXXXXXcaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 28,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011010010001 10101 11010010110 111000 111011111 101101 1101011101 01110 11110010001 100100 11001100100 111101 11111001101100 11110 01111010011 00101 11001011000100 10011 11100110110 1111100 1100011100 110110 101101011 110101 0110001001 01111 11110010110 00101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 940
- Average number of words per stanza: 159
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, at are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word you is repeated.
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