This is an analysis of the poem After Armageddon that begins with:
God walks lightly in the gardens of a cold, dark star,
Knowing not the dust that gathers in His garments' fold;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbab cddcd efXef abbXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1110001000111 1010111000101 11100111001 1000110000111 00111 111010100111 1001010100111 1101101001 1101011011011101 101001 1110001000111 1110001111101 11110110101 00110111101 001001 1111000100111 10111010100111 0111010101111 10010101001110 10101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 247
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words god, with are repeated.
The author used the same word god at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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