This is an analysis of the poem The Killing that begins with:
That was the day they killed the Son of God
On a squat hill-top by Jerusalem....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdaefafXgXcafheiibiacXXbeiXaifdXXiXhiiXeagf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 45,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101110101 1011110100 1011010011 1101010100 1101010111 1111011001 100101001010 01010100101 01000110110 10011101010 1011111001011 1101010101 011101110110 1101110101 1101010101 11110101011 101100010010 0101110001 1111110111 0011011101 1101110111 01011010101 1011011111 0011011011 1011011111010 1101011100 101101010101 110011101011 0111011011 1101010111 0101011101 1001110111 101010100010 11110101010 1111000101 1011111111 11010010101 11010111111 11110011110 10101011101 11010111110 10010100001 0101011111 1111011111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 989
- Average number of words per stanza: 184
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; god, of, his, they, death, and are repeated.
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- summary of The Killing;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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