This is an analysis of the poem Martyr that begins with:
He lay, wrapped in a world of mutilated hands,
Of trees that walked by night and grinning clouds;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXa bcXX Xdad aeaeXcbeb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 111001010101 0111111101 0100010111 1111011101 1111011101 1101110111 10011111110 1111110111 1101110101 110110101 1111000111 1101010111 01011100010 0101001101 0111110100 01010101001 1101010011 0101110101 0101010111 1001000101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 175
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; of is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words of, his are repeated.
The author used the same word he 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 ' is repeated).
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