This is an analysis of the poem Away that begins with:
I cannot say, and I will not say
That he is dead- . He is just away! ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aa bb cc dd cc ee ff gg bb Xb ddXaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,5,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 110111011 110110101 00101101001 1110001011 111101101 011011101 111110101 1011110101 10110111 0010110101 110111101 00100100101 11101111 1010100111 0101101001 110110100 01000111 1100010111 10101111010 110110101 11111110101 010101101 101110111 101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 78
- Average number of words per stanza: 16
- Amount of lines: 24
- 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; he, and, of, as are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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