This is an analysis of the poem One Day Eight Years Ago that begins with:

It was heard: to the post-mortem cell
he had been taken; ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcbd XcefA gdhg fgbijhfk ehdhklh bibkhmljXlcbXmXmnomcHgipqrc bksljpbnkpqa pamcmmmciApaa XpmmkH olXsXr
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,4,8,7,27,12,13,6,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 011001101 11010 1100100101 10111111 111011 0110101100 111100001111 0111011 1101111111111001 001101 0001111 1011110101 101001010 1011001101 1001011 100101 0101010 01010 01101 1011100110 1010101001011111 10101 1001011101 0101111110 00110101001001 11001100001010 00010100000101101 001010101 01001010010 01001111110001 11011111100 0010101 011110100110 10111 01001000010101 111 10111000101 001011010100 01110 111 0101110100101010 010100 10110011010101 1111100 01010101 101111110 1101111010101 101010 101 111111 10110101001 101010010101010 10100001 101001 00110 0010100101 10 11001 110110101 1110101001 0110101 1111 1010100010 01110001010 1101 1 1001 1111001010 111 101111111 1001 101010001 1011010001 11011 010110 11011 110110 001101 11 111001101 11001010 11101111 101101001 111001011 001001101010 110 111111 1101101001 11111111 01010011101000 10101010101001 01011010100
  • Amount of stanzas: 11
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 292
  • Average number of words per stanza: 55
  • Amount of lines: 92
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; night, in, of, tires are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words never, the are repeated.

    The poet repeated the same word table at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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