This is an analysis of the poem The Sword Of Suprise that begins with:
Sunder me from my bones, O sword of God
Till they stand stark and strange as do the trees; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xaaa Xbcb acXc cdXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1010111101 1111111101 11111100101 1101111 1010111001 1111010101 1101011101 110101 11010010111 1101010101 1001010100 110111 1010111111 0111010111 1111111111 010001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 157
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; that, i are repeated.
The author used the same word sunder at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines see is repeated).
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