This is an analysis of the poem The Stolen God--Lazarus To Dives that begins with:
We do not clamour for vengeance,
We do not whine for fear;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcded fgggahih Xjejkfif glclajfj kkXkmdjd gkjkijij kbXbejcj kmXmgdjdXkaggfdkd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,17,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110110 111111 111001010 111101 11011111 1111111 111111110 1101001 10011010 101101 1001110 01110110 111011101 1101111 010111010 01011101 11011010 1111011 1101110 111111 01011010 11011010 111110101 00101010 111011110 1101011 11001110 1010101 111001111 011111 1110110110 11111011 11111010 1101101 10110110 110101 101010011 1011101 111101001 010111 110111110 1101011 11100111 11101101 11111011 0100111 111101110 1110111 11001010 1111001 11101111 1101001 11011110 1111101 001001111 10101 00011110 11111001 1110011010 1101101 11100101 1111001 1111011111 1111101 11111110 1111010 010100101 1011010 011011110 111100 101011111 1101111
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 258
- Average number of words per stanza: 53
- Amount of lines: 72
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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, god, ours, and, our, you, took, have, taken, he are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words we, enough, our, he, all are repeated.
The author used the same words you, he at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase ours connects the lines.
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