This is an analysis of the poem Mary Magdalene that begins with:
All night I cried in agony
Of grief and bitter loss,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcb deXe cfgf cheh XXij XcXc ecXc kkkk gjej Xgkg ckXk cefX dege kele jccc eeba ebkb jiii lcXc Xccc eXbiXlkak
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110100 011101 11111111 010101 10010001 010111 11000100 010101 01110111 110111 11000101 110101 11110001 010101 11110101 010001 11111111 0111110 01010111 010101 11010101 010111 11010100 111111 11011101 010111 01011101 111101 01111101 010101 11010101 111101 11011100 111101 11010111 100101 01100100 110111 11011101 111111 01101101 110111 11011101 010100 11111111 010101 11011111 110110 11011101 101101 11010001 010001 10010101 110101 11010100 110101 01110101 010011 10010111 0100111 01110111 010111 1100111001 110100 11110101 100101 11011111 001111 11110111 100101 01110101 110011 11010100 011111 11011101 110101 110111110 110001 11111111 111101 11011101 111111 10111101 110101 11110100 110101 11100100 111101
- Amount of stanzas: 22
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 118
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 88
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
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 words they, the are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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