This is an analysis of the poem Yad Mordechai that begins with:

Yad Mordechai. Those who fell here
still look out the windows like sick children...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXbaXbX XXX X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,3,1,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11011111 1110101110 111011101 1101101000010 101000101101001110 11111011101101101 101010010101010001 1101111 11101110100100101 1001011010111010 01110011 010110111010
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 199
  • Average number of words per stanza: 36
  • Amount of lines: 13
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, sheet, iron, of, to are repeated.

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