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

Not under foreign skies
Nor under foreign wings protected -...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcdX d efXefghXijdb f klbamfdnaadbfXdafhifaabfcX fb bdadncnndXXX e lbdbbig XaX X ffllfobb X ibmbi X nXflbffdaaieX e noaggXnfaXhdfhX e lffjfppmn Xi bibi ejff XqfdX Xm lbhcfeffleeddXaago X acfd boji rrpe afaa babao df gX XgaXXo Xifipi r XcaadhXdkkeic Xblqg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,1,12,1,26,2,12,1,7,3,1,8,1,5,1,13,1,15,1,9,2,4,4,5,2,18,1,4,4,4,4,5,2,2,6,6,1,13,7,32,1,9,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110101 110101010 111001110 1101010101 1 010010 10010000010101 110111001010 1011111111011 110101101010011 011011011100 011111010010 100100101110011 101101111001 11110110111 10101101111000 0101 010100011101 1010 1010101 01010101 110111010 10101010 1110101 11101111 10111011110 1110101100 001110101 1010101010 1010101101 101010011101 11011001 10100101010 11110100010 010010000101 1010101010 1001010100111 111110011 11110001100001 11110101 100110100 110011100010010 11000101010001 11110111000111 11 1010 11 0101011001 01010101 1101101010 1010101001 11101101 11011 00100100101100 110100101 1011101 11001010 1001101110 00110 1 101001111101 11110101001 1001000101 01010101001001 0101101111011 1 11110100101010 010010010101 100000101010 11011 1 1010101 010111001 10010101 01101001101 101101 0110101011 0100101001 1011001 1 00011110100110 1101011110 1000011 11010001 1 1 10010110110 01110010101 01011111 111101 11111001 0101011100 1 100111 0111 111010101 0101110100 1011101001 1 1 1101111010 1011 1111101010 11111110 10110110010 11110010 1011001010111 0110111010 111101010 0100010 10110011 1101001 110010101010 10101 1 1 11101101 11010111010 11100110 1111100 11111 1110101 1011101 00101 101 1 010 011000101 1011101 1011101 1010001 1101010101 11010100 1110101 11110101 11011010 1010011110 111100010 0011100101 1111010011 1 01 1011011111 1111110111 11110111001 1111011100 0111011110 10101011111 1010010001010 10101100101010 1001010111 1111001010011 0100100011111 1 010101010111 111101010100 1101110 01101111 11011001010 11011001 1 10001 110111 0111001 11100001 111101 1100011000100 11110100 00 110111 110111 001111 110101 1111001 0100101 11010010 111101 10110001 0101011 101101 0101001 1111001 1 1010 111110 1101011 1 01001010101010 01010001 0010111110101 1001011111 11001 1 101010111 0100010101 111010110 1110101 111 101 1 1111101 1101010101 1100111010 01001110101 1111111101 110011110100 0101010101 01001010101 11111111 110111101 1101110011 100100010111 1 01011001001 111111111 011010011001010 01111101010010 10101 0110010100101 1011101110 11011111101 100111011101 1 1110101110010 1 110111101010111 10100111011001 1 10011111101 1111010101 11110001011111 101010101 011110010 01010010001 11101000100 110100101110 1011111 1110111001 1001110101 11100011111 101111111010 11111001 1010010111 110010110 011100001111110 110101 10101111 010100111 11010110010 11110001010 111001 11 110111110010 011001011010 1010111 10010010100111 1001100010100 10101001010110 111010100100 1010010 1010110110001
  • Amount of stanzas: 42
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 209
  • Average number of words per stanza: 38
  • Amount of lines: 261
  • 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; of, her, you, i, to, with, how, this are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words her, what, and, the, i, like, however, or, how are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines me, ', the are repeated).

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