This is an analysis of the poem The New Ezekiel that begins with:
What, can these dead bones live, whose sap is dried
By twenty scorching centuries of wrong? ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd efefaaaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111111101 1101010001 000101011 0101111101 1101010111 0101110101 0101011101 1001110101 1100011101 1001111101 1011110111 1101111101 0100110101 1111010111 1111110101 1111110011
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 361
- Average number of words per stanza: 67
- Amount of lines: 16
- 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 speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words is, of are repeated.
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