This is an analysis of the poem Last Words To Miriam that begins with:

Yours is the shame and sorrow,
But the disgrace is mine; ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abacb dedce efegf hiXgi gigdi jkjdk lmlhm
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,5,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 1001110 100101 1111110 11010011010 101001 111000011 101111 1110001011 1001001010 10111001 1111101 11101 11010111 1110101101 1101001 11101101 10111001 111110010 1010100111 00100101 10101001 1001111 10001101 001001100111 111101 110111 01101011 10101101 110101101 0101 01101001 01111101 1110100 100011001 110010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 187
  • Average number of words per stanza: 31
  • Amount of lines: 35
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; you is repeated.

    The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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