This is an analysis of the poem We Who Were Executed that begins with:
I longed for your lips, dreamed of their roses:
I was hanged from the dry branch of the scaffold....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abca baXXXa XXXdeba cXafa aXbfdXa e X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,6,7,5,7,1,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111110110 11100110010 11001111101 11100011011 11110101 1101011 110100 10110011 101110011 101100011 101010010011110 1111111111 11101001 111110110 0101110100110 1101010101 111100101 011101111 11011011 10100011 110101100010 11010000010101 101101110110 110001 0011101 101010111110010 0010011100100010 001001111010111 1101000101 100101101010 101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 184
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 31
- 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; i, of, my, we are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, it are repeated.
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