This is an analysis of the poem The Widow And Her Son Xxi that begins with:
Night fell over North Lebanon and snow was covering the villages surrounded by the Kadeesha Valley, giving the fields and prairies the appearance of...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X X a X X a X X X X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110110011110001000101010010100111000100011010011010010101001011110011100101 001111100101011101011011101101011011010111010 010010101011010110111010101010010010000101110010111111110111101111110010100110011010001100101011010110101111010011110111010101001 1111101001110101101011101010011101101001 1011111001010010001110111001101 101010101101111101111111001100101101 1011110110110110101010110101100101110111011110101001001001101010 0101101010011011110011110111010101101100 0101101101010111011110001111110101101000101111100110011010101110010101000101111101010111011000111110110101101111010000111001010011111101000011011110010110101110010001111100110100 11010011001011001110101001111111101100101110
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 281
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 10
- Average number of symbols per line: 282 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 51
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, her, in, of, nature, she, he, him, with, his, at, my, sleep, us are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words sleep, the are repeated.
The author used the same words sleep, the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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