This is an analysis of the poem More Light! More Light! that begins with:
For Heinrich Blucher and Hannah Arendt
Composed in the Tower before his execution...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcXX daXa aeae Xdbd dfgf fbcb Xhgh faXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101011010 0100100101010 110101101111 1000010100101 10011101011111100 1110100101011100 01011010001 01010111011 101111110101 1111111111011 010110100100 111011100101 111111010100 1110110101 11110100101 01011110011 1010011011001 110011100101 110100111001 01010110001 11100110001 11001110111 011100101001 110011010101 01110110110 1111001101 111001011101 0101010001 111001010110101 11101110110 110001100111 1001010111 11001010011
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 199
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 33
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, to, in are repeated.
The author used the same word no at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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