This is an analysis of the poem Requiem that begins with:
NOW veiled in the inviolable past
Love lies asleep, who never more will wake; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abba cddc effe gaag ghhh ihhi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1100010001 1101110101 1111110111 1111111111 1011101111 1101110111 1111010101 1111010111 0101111101 0101010101 11001111111 10011100101 1111000101 0101010111 1001010100 1000100101 1111111101 0101111100 0111011101 1101011111 1011110011 1111010111 11011111010 1001110101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 173
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 29
- 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; we, of, gave are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, we are repeated.
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- summary of Requiem;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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