This is an analysis of the poem The Shadow Of God that begins with:
To Mohács
in the marshlands, still in the pouring rain,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabcdefgcdcbffcehfbaiabeaedXcifdcdafffa cXefhafbcjkdlcgc iceccaccaacjgfmXccfneb occchihda Xmbadhjcd X eehjcceca e aXfohfecc e caceebXacdefeXcecl e eheXcefoc e agofeeecb dhfbccccncabecogfo eabmbXeec ecdeecaao e pofbblbXe idjbkcolh iddnoXacpe npqcboheq
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 39,16,22,9,9,1,9,1,9,1,18,1,9,1,9,18,9,9,1,9,9,10,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01 0011100101 10111110 1100101010 00100100100 100010010 10100010011 11011101 110101110 011011010 1000001001 1000010010 001001001 010011011 0100101100 0100100101 1011011 100110011 0101000111101 00101101001 00101001011 1010011010101 1010100101101 1110010101 01011111011 1101110110 101011001110 1100111010 110110111 111110101 1101010010 111101100010 0100111010 0101011110 101001000100 011100101 101001011 101001101 0100101001 001001000100 101001101 1011010101 10111010101 001011100 101110110 10110110001 1110110001 10101000010 101100111 11111010 10110001010 0000100100110 101101111 00101101101 001110110 000101011011 10010101000100 11001010101 111001101001 110011010 1001111110 11010001101 00110011 00111110101 1010101010 1010110010 01001110001 1000010011010 10111000110 1010110011 100010101100 100100110 11101101 0010010101 10110111 00100100101 0110110001 101101010 00100100 010110010 10110011 11101110 01101011 011110 111110 101111 0101001 11011001 01010011 1011111 1001010 10010010 0101101 10100010 010010110 01 101001 100101 10001011 001100001 10010101 11011110 100111 1100011011 110100010 1 11100010 01000010100 10010101 1010010010 01110110 10010111 1010101 10101101 0111110 1 01101001 011010111 101111 1011101 1010010 1001110 1000100100 010000010 01110011 11111010 111001 1010110 010010011 01011001 0010001001 1100010 01001011 10100100 1 11111 1011110 000100010 0100110 01000101100 10101 1011011 0011010 10010100 1 101111010 0110010010 010001011 0101110010 111010101 1101101101 101010010 1110001 0110001 100010100 1001001011 100100001 10010011 01101011 111010 111010 001010 11111 01110001 1101101 010001100 101111 01111101 01101101 00100011111 11110010 1010010101 10011010 0010011101 100101110 01001111 01101001 10111010 1101011 101001 1011001 1011011 11111 110010010 1010111 110011 0101101 0011010 011001 1011111 1 1111011 010111110 101000101 00111001 101001011 10100100 0100101 1100111 10111101 1101010 111010110 010101 0010011 100010110 01101 00110001 01110 1101110 101111 1011110 01110110 110101001 11110010 111010 01000101 11011001 0111001 1 01001011 10111001 101111101 00100100010 01011001 011100110 00100010 10101010 011110
- Amount of stanzas: 23
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 345
- Average number of words per stanza: 64
- Amount of lines: 230
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, of, his, han, sultan, and, thereafter, out, their, devils, with, one, from are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, thereafter, in, of, and, , a, end, from are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines , devils, s are repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases , faster connect the lines.
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