This is an analysis of the poem Amen that begins with:
It is over. What is over?
Nay, now much is over truly!—... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbb dedXX fbfXbbf gHifiXjdjH fajXfcakfkh HcHcXjkjijX fieikeeeheheh fcfcfilih Xdmddjcjh mcmcdjXjh ikjkndddXdfdh dgogmhlhphX qkmkmjljfjX dplpdnlnmXh gmXfpfofelqlh nirifcfchcX jiXieemefXX kgdXjdqXcdidddh fcecedbdidh mioiGoGoh bcocecoofoh roookjfjdjh knjnXl
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,7,10,11,11,13,9,9,9,13,11,11,11,13,11,11,15,11,9,11,11,9,12,12,12,12,12,12,12,12,12,25,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 00101010 11101010 10111011 10111010 10101010 00101010 10101101 11101010 10111110 01101110 00101010 10101010 011111010 10101010 101001110 10101110 11101010 101 1011101 11011 1111010 010101 11110 111101 1111100 111111 1011101 11010101 1111010 1011101 101110 1010001 111001 1110010110 110101 1011101 110101 0011111 1101111 01101 1101111 1101 11111010 10111 11001111 111011 1011101 010101 1111101 111110 101000 1011101 110111 1010111 100101 1011101 001001 1011101 1101001 1011101 10111 1110111 1110101 011101 1110101 011101 1110101 011101 10010101 1001001 0010101 111010 10101 1011001 11111 1110111 010111 010010111 1100101 11110111 1111101 11111 1010101 10111 1010101 010101 11111101 1101 1010101 1010001 10101 11100111 010111 110111 10111 11111101 111101 11000101 010101 11010001 011001 11101001 11011001 011001 1111111 10111 1111001 10111 1011101 10101 1110001 10111 1111111 11010101 100101 111101001 111101 11010111 110110 10010001 111101 10010001 110001 11111101 1010001 11101 1110111 01101 1110111 10111 11110111 001101 01010101 010111 01011111 10011101 010101 0010101 10100 11010101 110101 110101001 011101 11010110 110111 11010101 111111 1011111 1110101 101101 1111111 110101 1111101 10111 1111101 11111 1111101 11111 1111111 0010111 101001 1111111 011001 11001101 111101 01010101 111111 11010101 110111 11011111 110010111 011101 01110111 110101 11011101 111101 100110101 1101010 11111101 010101 11010100 010001 11010111 100101 11011101 01110101 110101 11000101 1001001 10110101 110101 11010100 110001 11011101 011101 101101011 1010100 110100 10010111 010101 11010111 10001 11010111 110101 01011101 0101110 101101 1010101 101001 1010001 11111 0010101 010001 11111001 110111 0010101 10011111 1100001 100111001 0100101 1010101 00101 1111111 010111 111101001 110111 1011101 110010101 01101 1111001 10101 1110001 110111 1011101 00101 1010111 1010101 10001 1110111 010101 11011101 110101 11110101 110101 1110111 00111 1011101 10100 110100 11101011 11101101 10111111 11100101 1010101 1010101 110100 11010100 1111111 11101101 101111 11010101 110101 11010111 100001 11110001 111101 01010111 111111 11011111 111101 11111111 11111 01100111 1000101 11110101 110101 11111101 111101 11110101 110111 10111011 101110 11010000 111011 11010101 1101 11010101 010111 11111101 1010100 10110111 111001 11100101 100101 10011111 1111 11111101 100111 111111011 100101 11010101 01100101 11110001 110001 11011101 11111111 11111101 111101 01110100 011101010 11110010 011101010 11110001 110111010 11011001 0111010 11010111 11110101 11011111 1101 11010101 110111 1011111 100101 01000101 1010111 11010101 0101001 1011101 1111001 1010101 11111 1011111 1110 01011101 11010 11110101 1101010 11110100 11110 111101 1110 1010111 0110 10011101 001001 11111111 1101 10111001 011011 11011111 10101 10111100 11011101 01011101 11101 10101010 111111 10101010 110111 11010111 010101001 01111101 011001 11011111 10011111 1111111 110111
- Amount of stanzas: 34
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 324
- Average number of words per stanza: 62
- Amount of lines: 368
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; over, finished, suffices, long, and, ago, half, like, warbling, out, of, his, to, noted, ', every, sang, you, good, for, in, her are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words now, and, half, warbling, all, awhile, like, sang, they, sea are repeated.
The author used the same word it 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 ', cameron are repeated).
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Amen;
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- idea of the verse;
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