This is an analysis of the poem Isaiah Beethoven that begins with:

They told me I had three months to live,
So I crept to Bernadotte,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbcaXddefbXebdgbfhXXhcgdbXe
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 28,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111111101 1110100 11101110110 1010101010 1101 1111 11101010010 1111110110 10011111 11011101 1110101011 11010111110 000101 111010101 101001010 110010111 0100111011 010101010 101001101 111110101 1101001011 01001011011 101010011110 110010011 101001110 10101101 011101010 010100101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1002
  • Average number of words per stanza: 201
  • Amount of lines: 28
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; and, we, soul, of are repeated.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase you connects the lines.

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