This is an analysis of the poem Easter Morning that begins with:

I have a life that did not become,
that turned aside and stopped,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbcde befghidjkb fbglimnfoi pqcfkdgge anddcgnddcanpjebqa XodcbfcifXed XbebblmbXdfXXbedlkbcffXbhkidikkclefqpne
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,10,10,9,18,12,39,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110110101 110111 010 11001101001 111101 1011111 0000111 10001101 0110111 101011 01001000100 101011 101 101111 0111110 1011111 11110111001 110110010010 1010111011101 11110110 1011111010 10011011001 10101101101 001010010 110001010 1010011 10101101010 1110010011 1011000111 11011011110 111100 10110011 01011011 10111011 01 010111101 111011001 011001101 10111101 1011011011 1111011 11110111 000111110 1111100101 11100111 10101011 101110011 111010 100011010 1010010111 10001011 0101100010 110011010 11101 0011011 111010111 1111111101011 1100010101 001100110 1100111 11111 1001001 0010110 10010010 111011111 101000 01011 1000111 1010100110 001011001 101011010 10101001 1011001010 0100011100 1111011 10101111 10101001000 110100110 01110011 01010111111 111111 0101101000 1101011110 1010100101 0101010101 10101001 1011010010 010111111 101001101 110111100 10111010 1111000101 110101011 101010100 10010100010 101110 0000110101 10101110 0101101010 0110000010 1010101 1001101100 101100111 001
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 507
  • Average number of words per stanza: 95
  • Amount of lines: 104
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; to, and, now, life, it are repeated.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase for connects the lines.

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