This is an analysis of the poem Requiescat In Pace! that begins with:
O My heart, my heart is sick awishing and awaiting:
The lad took up his knapsack, he went, he went his way;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cbcb dede efef agaX dbdb hihi abaab cgcg Xbcb jkjk ahXah agag cdecX gbgb dgdX hblhhl XbXXX akak cmcm cncn lilX cgeXg XghX ahcah cjhcX cgcfg bhhbhXbibi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,5,4,4,4,5,4,5,4,4,6,5,4,4,4,4,5,4,5,5,5,10,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111011001010 0111011111101 11111010101001010 11111110101001 10110101010110 0110010111100 1110101011101010 1111101111011 11011100101110 0011110110111 1010101010101100 1111110110101 11011011110110 1111110111101 1110101011111010 1101110111111 10101110101110 1101111110111 1010001011101010 110001111011010 11011100101010 11010111011100 10100110111001000 1010101011111 01111101011110 1011110110101 1110101010111110 01011111001101 01110110101110 1110110100101 111011101001011 10 1010101010101 10111111101110 1010111110101 1110101010101010 1001010111101 11111110010110 0010111111111 1110111011101110 1010010011111 11101010011110 1110101101111 1110011011110110 0010001011111 10101011011010 1011010010101 10111011111110 10 0101010100101 11111110011010 1101010010111 1010101010101110 1010111010111 11101111010110 0101110111101 00111011100011 10 11111010111010 11110111101110 0111110011101 1011111000101110 10100111011101 11011100111011 1101010111001 1011101010100111 10111001101110 01110101011010 1111110010111 1 101011100101011 10 1010111010101 11110101111110 0110101101101 111111010101010 10 1011101010111 11101011010010 11110110100111 11111001000101110 1010111111111 11111111111010 1101101110011 1110101110111110 10111010011101 11110100111010 1010011010111 1011101001101010 1001010010101 111110110011110 1011010101011 0110101010101110 1110101011110 01110111101010 1010101101111 11111110111111 10 1101010111101 11111011111010 1111101111111 1111101011111010 101010101111010 111101100011010 1111010110101 11101010101110 10 1111111011000 11000000101010 1010111100001 10101010101011 10 1111011000101 11111111011110 1100011110101 1110001111001010 11111010111 11 11111111111111 1000111111101 01111110010111 011 11111110010101 11111011111011 1001101111111 10001010101110101 1111010011101
- Amount of stanzas: 29
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 241
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 127
- Average number of symbols per line: 54 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, his, he, to, them, of, their, over, i, o, bird, it, thee are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, on, over are repeated.
The author used the same words he, and, i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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