This is an analysis of the poem Speeding that begins with:
To Ivo Alan Charteris, October 17th, 1915
Requiescat is not my bidding,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X aabb aacc ddee ffgg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01111010001011 10001110 100101110 111101110 1011111010 1011010110 111011010 11111011 010111101 1001101010 0100101010 011001101 1001101001 1111011111 10010111111 1111011010 1111111110
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 134
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 17
- 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; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word who is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines you is repeated).
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