This is an analysis of the poem What Mean Ye? that begins with:
What mean ye that ye bruise and bind
My people, saith the Lord,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaa bcbc Xdad aeae bfbf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111111 110101 11110101 110111 11111101 111100 11110111 111101 11111101 010101 10010101 111101 11111101 0111110 10011111 1111110 11010111 101101 11100101 010111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 129
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The author used the same word what at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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