This is an analysis of the poem Forgiveness that begins with:

Now bury with the dead years conflicts dead
And with fresh days let all begin anew.... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdefefgg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
  • Metre: 1100010101 1011110101 11001100111 11110101101 1101000100 11001010101 1111110101 1101011101 1111010011 1111011101 1001010101 0101110101 1101101101 1101010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 630
  • Average number of words per stanza: 112
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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.

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