This is an analysis of the poem Lazarus that begins with:
“No, Mary, there was nothing—not a word.
Nothing, and always nothing. Go again ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdbaeffgchiij dklidmkcjbgnobiopcpbomqjjjmjbdlieercmmicdajbcjk lfmcqkbpdkeidbijdcis sdhsds cjijlembbedpicke fkadjidlkeapfietcg aaaiaoipsdmhapiekljm cbmqmpdokbdak sjclccacapbemmmjaeuoevi Xadatakcfmmc pejmcbp cfisfcaisjcaambX dbiiefafb ademddodbbe djnone n
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,47,20,6,16,18,20,13,23,12,7,16,9,11,6,18,9,38,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101110101 1011110101 1011110111 1111111101 1111100101 0101010101 1101011111 110011111110 01111110010 1111110111 0101111011 1101111011 1111011100 01110111111 1101110101 1011010101 11011101110 1011100111 010001101010 1100010101 0101010101 11111111110 11110100011 1001011111 1111111110 1101111101 1001011111 1111110101 11010111010 1111010110 1110011111 0111110100 0101110011 10110011110 1111110111 1111111101 10111101001 1100110001 1111010111 1101110101 1001010101 1110110111 1111110111 0111001101 1101011001 1110011011 0101010011 1111111101 11001111101 10111100110 1101001111 1111001110 1111011101 01110111101 0111110101 1111111110 0101010101 1001111111 1101010101 0111010101 1111110111 1111110 101 11010111110 01011010101 11111100111 0101111001 110010011100 1101010101 10011101110 1101010011 01110111110 0111011111 1001111101 11000101111 1011111101 1001011100 1100011111 11011110111 0111010111 0111010101 11010001101 0101111111 1011110101 1101111111 1111010101 1111111111 110011 1011 0111010001 1111011011 1101111111 1001110111 1111011011 01011001011 1101011101 01111111010 1101111111 11111011110 1111111100 0111111111 1101111101 11111111110 1111111 1010 11101101110 11001111010 1111011110 1100111011 1101110100 1100110001 1111110111 10010110010 1001110101 1100110101 11011111110 1011111100 1011101100 0110110101 1101011011 11110101000 1101011101 1111011111 1111111111 1011010111 1101111100 1111010101 1110010111 0111111100 11111110010 1101110101 1011011110 10110101111 1111101101 11110011101 1111111100 0111110101 01001101001 01010001010 1111010111 1011111101 1001111101 1101010111 01110101110 1101111100 1100111001 0111011111 11111110110 01010001001 0111111101 11110111110 11111101010 1101000111 10110111111 0110010 1111 0101010111 1111010100 1101011111 01010101001 1001011101 1101010011 110100110011 1111010101 11010101110 1011101111 1001011011 1101011101 10010111011 1111111001 0100101011 1111111101 1011010101 1011110111 1101011101 1101011011 11111111110 1101111110 1001011100 11011101010 01001010001 1101011111 1111000101 0001010101 1111001110 1111111101 11010101110 01001001111 1101010111 111111 10110 1001011011 1111011111 11011101111 1011010111 1001001101 11110110110 1111111011 111101011110 1011101101 1011011111 1001010101 1101011011 1111010001 1001011101 0101000001 10110110101 1101001011 1111010001 1111111001 11110111000 0111010101 1011101000 0111010101 11001011111 1111001100 1101111100 1110010101 11001111010 0011111101 1101111101 11 110010101 1000010101 1001011111 101110011 1111110101 0100011110 1111001111 1111110101 1011011001 1001111001 1001101011 1001000101 1111000101 0100110101 1111110011 1101110111 1111 110111 1100111111 1101011111 0100011101 1111110111 1011010100 1101011111 1010110101 1111101111 11110100010 1111011101 00010100110 1101011011 11110111011 10011001010 11010101011 1111110111 1110110001 1111011111 10111101110 1111011111 11011111110 01010011111 1101111110 0101101111 11001011111 010111011110 1111010101 11001100101 1111101111 0101110101 1111011101 1011010101 1101010100 11010011010 11110111001 01111101110 1101010011 1111110101 1100110110 0101010100 0101001101 01111101110 01111100101 11111100110 11111101010 1111110111 1101001111 0111011111 11010110111 1011101110 111110111001 1111100101 11110111001 1111011110 1101100101 1101110101 0100111111 1101111111 1100111101 1101111111 1111101111 01010101110 1001111001 1001111011
- Amount of stanzas: 18
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 711
- Average number of words per stanza: 142
- Amount of lines: 304
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, nothing, he, as, all, there, from, we, to, that, at, i, him, say, her, so, little, not, she, it, his, had, living, you, of, for, if, or, me, long are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words for, she, to, as, that, was, i, and, is, or are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines before, know, him, afraid, me are repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase living connects the lines.
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- summary of Lazarus;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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