This is an analysis of the poem In View of the Fact that begins with:
The people of my time are passing away: my
wife is baking for a funeral, a 60-year-old who...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ab cX db ef dc bX Xe ef bf gg bX Xh ha Xb ee bf Xa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010011110011 10101010001111 1100101110 111110100101 0111011111 111110101001 100110101110 1111011110 11110101110 1101111101 1100101010111 111111111 010101000111 01011001010 11110101110 101001011 11111101101 1100101101 101110011 100110100100 10111110101 101011101001 001111110110 01011011101 011110101011 010101010011 101111111 11010110110 0011110010100 1010110011100 1110111100 1001111110 11010101101 110110101
- Amount of stanzas: 17
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 88
- Average number of words per stanza: 17
- Amount of lines: 34
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, we, some, on, every, love are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines on, every are repeated).
The poet repeated the same word our at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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