This is an analysis of the poem For The Year Of The Insane that begins with:
A prayer
O Mary, fragile mother, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bcdefXdghbXehdaXdgi djdejkXldX blmflldbhenfhdXefff idbjhmhnelhf kmilibibc dhbaeXibfh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,19,10,19,12,9,10,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01 1101010 11111 11111111 0110000101 1100011 11101000 11011101110 01110 11001101 01010 111110 010111 11110 11111 11101 1011101 101 111110 0010111111 11111 1000011 1111110 1100101 1010011 011010011010 100110010 01001 110 100011110101 10110 1010011 111011111 11010111 1001 00110011011 111101 110 110010 0111011010 01101 1111101011 011010101 1111001011 110110100110 011101 0111111 10101 1111 11010010 101011 1110010 0010110101 10011 111011010101 00010001001 00111011 0101011010110 01100010111 1110011010 10010110 1101010 11111 0101010010 11100011 0110101 110110 111111111 11111111010 110111 11010111 110001010 01000101010 1011 1110100 110001 0111101 11010 110111 1110011
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 342
- Average number of words per stanza: 66
- Amount of lines: 80
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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, fear, of, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words it, without, and, the, i are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines death, bread are repeated).
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