This is an analysis of the poem And So To-Day that begins with:
And so to-day- they lay him away-
the boy nobody knows the name of- ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCDE Xfgh gbgijkXlgeagFXXfm hXXnoggp ABCDE XXagGe oXiddXqgGq Aaegqe qRqRq gokkX pliikq aqnqkg gllllsqiq rilsrm ntXnk uqivufXXXXXXhd gilpkigXm evXpiqclj ccaiulX XcllgiXgdg gglXggcX tgdcuigdag aXggFXrgsgXcXqa ABkXg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,17,8,5,6,10,6,5,5,6,6,9,6,5,14,9,9,7,10,8,10,15,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110111101 011111010 011000110 011111011 1111011 11010101010101 111101010011 1010111111 01001100111 1001111010010 01110111 10101001 011100111 011100111 11101110 1110111 100011011 10100101011010 1001011001 1111101010101 1001111010010 1010011 11111111 10111010110 1001010111 111 11110101 0101101 10111 1010001001010 10011010010 10010111 00101010 10001010001 110111101 011111010 011000110 011111011 1111011 0110111111001 011011111011 1010010011101 0100101110 01010001000100 11110111 00100000101110 111011011 0001010101001 111011100111 11010000010101 100011110001011 1010100101110010 0100101110 01010001000100 11110010 110111101 111010101110 101110101001 101100101111010 01010100010 01100011011 01111010001000010 111010101 01101010001000010 111010101 10100110100010 1010010010 111101110 11001011011 00101010011 110010100110100 1101010 1010010 10110110 1011111 10001010100 00100001000010 0110100001001101 1100100100010011 010100011011110 10110101011010 110011010001000 100 010100111011 1101011101 11011010111 111010111 10111010010 01100110101 01011100100010 101001110101 00100100100010 010100101001010101 110001010010 10010110010010011 1 01010111010101 111 110100111001010 1011101001011 1011111111111 01010001000100100 11010011 010101010 101100010 10011001 001110011 1000111100110010 1011001001101 11111111110 110111111 110101 11101110110 111110101010 11111 11010011100 00100111 101101 1101011 101111011 1011101 1101001110 11001001001 101110100 110101110 110101001 1000 1101 111 1010111001 101001101010 10101001001 1010110100 1010110101 101101101 10111110 1110110 10100110101 1110001001110 111110 11111 11011 11011110 00100110 1011101 10110101 100110011 10011111 0100011111 11010111 001001 00100111 01000100 1101000100 10001011110 01001001110 10011011100 111010110011 1111010001010 011101001110 11110010111 111010111001 1110111101001 11100101010 11110011010 110110110011011 1001101010 1110110101111 1101111001 01011101 10011 01111010 01111010 10010110010 1010011 1111111 100111010101 01101011 011010011 0010010010 1111100101010010 1100101000100110 1100101110010 1000101011001010 011010011 110111101 011111010 1110101011 0101101001 10010100
- Amount of stanzas: 24
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 347
- Average number of words per stanza: 60
- Amount of lines: 190
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; white, and, fish, with, of, republic, so, soft, in, hi, eeee, to, up, ', or, some, bull, said, reading, want, ads, he, mentioned, on are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, a, if, and, or, when, said, safe, reading, in, do, did are repeated.
The author used the same word if at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ', call, tracks, player, orators are repeated).
The poet repeated the same word him at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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