This is an analysis of the poem Elizabeth Childers that begins with:
Dust of my dust,
And dust with my dust, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabXbcdbeeeafbfXbXbbefbcbd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 26,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011 11011 1111111001 1011 110111111 0011111101 11111111 00111111010 0111101011 1101011001 11101010 10100110101 11011010 11010101101 010010110 11101100 0101001110 110101111 00101111010 01111011010 10010101101 111101110 0111011 1111011110 1111011 101011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1033
- Average number of words per stanza: 191
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; dust, my, you, or, blood are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines dust is repeated).
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