This is an analysis of the poem For Molly, Concerning God that begins with:
Is God the one who eats the meat
off the bones of dead people?...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abX CdeefgXXhbCiAdjAd fafc bfkkfaaagilamgahfllXklflcAlAdAXdNakNakAgm leXifkj afaXcdaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,17,4,41,7,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01011101 1010110 1001011111 1001 10 10111 1 10 10110 010 0100110 101 111111 1001 11 11 10 11 11 1100 101 100 101 10 11101 0110 1111 0110 101010 1001 101 101 111010 111 10 1101 00100101 110 01 01 0110 11 01001 0111 110 0100 010 1111 01 01001 11 01001 1000100 01001 10000 00100 0100 111 01101 0100 1101 0111 01001 010 1 1 1110 11 1101010 110100 11101 0010011 011 110 1101 11 01010 111 101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 172
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 79
- Average number of symbols per line: 14 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 3
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; our, of, meat, you, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words my, let are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines him, meat, you, eat are repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase him connects the lines.
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