This is an analysis of the poem At The Executed Murderer's Grave that begins with:
Why should we do this? What good is it to us? Above all,
how can we do such a thing? How can it possibly be done?...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ab c X bddebccffghihgg X jkdclklkcb X kmcckmlnhlijjnXn X ciieafff X ajaibXoakk X hhb X eohikhimmchXhmc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,1,1,15,1,10,1,16,1,8,1,10,1,3,1,15,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11110100001011 111110111010001 1 1 1101011111 10110000101 01010010111 01010101110 1101110101 100100101010 01010111110 1111010111 0101110111 011101101 0101110011 1111111101 1011010111 1101110101 1111010001 1 10010111111 011101111111 0101011100 1111100101 111100011 1110100101 1001010101 1001111101 1011111111 1111110111 1 1001010101 1101101101 1111010101 0111010101 11010010100 1011010111 1111010111 11110111010 1001010101 1111011101 1101011101 01111100101 10110010001 11011101010 1011010100 1111001110010 1 11011010101 0111011101 0101011111 11111101110 0110010101 01010010111 1010110100 1101011111 1 01011010001 1111011101 01011100111 1011 101000111 0101110101 10111111000101 11101011101100 0100010111 1101011001 1 10010101111 01010010001 1111110101 1 1001010100 10010101101 1101110101 1101011111 1011011101 1001110101 1001111101 1001010101 0101111111 1010101001 11011000101 1001011000 1001010101 0101010011 1011010101
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 206
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 93
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, he, of, pity, to, him, and, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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