This is an analysis of the poem Death Of An Innocent that begins with:
I went to a party, Mom,
I remembered what you said....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab abab acac aXdc abab adad aeae aeaa afaf dfd aghg aiXi ajaj ajaj abahiXadjd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,3,4,4,4,4,10,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1100101 1010111 1111011 1111001 11011011 011111 1101111 101010111 11100111 1111111 10100100101 1101010101 11100111 11111011 01001111 1010011 11001011 111110001 010110111 111101 111110101 1100101 1101011 11001101 0101101 111111 11010011 11111001 10110111 110001 1101011 110011 11100111 111101 010101 010101 111001011011 010100011 1101 111011 0110111 010111 11101 011110101 111101 010110 1111101 11101011 110001 11110101 1101111 1111111 10111 01011111 111001 11010101 0010101 111111 11101 10111 1111101 011101 110111 11110101
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 116
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 64
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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; i is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, as, tell are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase you connects the lines.
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- summary of Death Of An Innocent;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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