This is an analysis of the poem I'M Sorry For The Dead—today that begins with:
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I'm sorry for the Dead—Today—... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: X abba cdbd abcb XbXb XaXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 01010101 010101 1101110 011111 1111010 100101 1101010 110101 01110101 0100101 01010101 01011 0101111 110111 11010010 110101 0100010 110101 11111111 11010100
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 102
- Average number of words per stanza: 18
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same word a at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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