This is an analysis of the poem Rest In Peace that begins with:
And I stood up, so that
In keeping with our ancestral laws,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdadXcebfbdghbbgXXXbgXidaaedXjggXXbBJAJhbjbXibiXfbXaddbjgXXbBJAJh X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 67,1,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111 010010101 111011 1010100110 101011 1111 0101 0101 1110 0110 111110 0011 0011010 1010100 10010 001011 010110 0101010 0101010 0101010 111110 0110 00100100 11001 00101001 10101 101100 1110011 1011 11110101 101110 11011100010 1010111100100 11101000100100 1110100 1110101010 101110 0110101 01110 101101 1011 10111 0110010 011010 0100101 10100 0101 11110 011 1001010 01010 11100101 0001001 110 1111 10001001 01010 01001 111100100 1110100 1110101010 1011110 0110101 01110 101101 1011 101101 1
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 837
- Average number of words per stanza: 154
- Amount of lines: 68
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, as, far, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, as, in, to are repeated.
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