This is an analysis of the poem Sylvia's Death that begins with:
For Sylvia Plath
O Sylvia, Sylvia, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bccdefbghfcchgXgijgkdickglijciDHmndnoollXcaehgbiiDHnkajeclliljmgkj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,66,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11001 1100100 00110111 01101100 1001001011 0110001 0001000011 100100 1011 10111 0011 0110010 1101 10111 11011100 1 101100 1101 00011101101111 01111111 011111101 0111011011 111101010010 0111010011 01111101 01110 01010101 010 010 101 1101 111 011 1100101001010 1111101110 11100111 1010101110 0101 00100010001101 1111110 1011110 111111111 11011101 111101011 010011011 11 11 11100 101 0101 111 011 11110 0111100111 1011 111010 01111 010110 11 1011 1011 1011011 011101 11010 11 11010 111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 871
- Average number of words per stanza: 166
- Amount of lines: 67
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; sylvia, into, we are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words with, the, and, o are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines again is repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase me connects the lines.
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