This is an analysis of the poem Cemented In Their Minds that begins with:
Instead of ensuring each step they placed,
Had been taken to prevent......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaabcdd dcde afeg eefXagXhfe X a X bghg X hgaFhfFa XX XXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,4,10,1,1,1,4,1,8,2,3,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0100101111 1010001 010001000101 111011 1101101101 00100011010 001001001000010 1101100101110 0100100101010001 1100101010111 101010010001 00100011101001 010100010011101 010001010011 100010010001 10111000100011001 1001010 01101000111 11010010110100 010100100101 00100000101111 1100110100101 1011001001 1101010010100 0010100111 11010110111 1111101 100 101110010 1101110101 010 1010100 110111110 1111011 0100 1100 10100110 11011001011 1101000100 0110101111001 11011001011 0011101 1 1111011 110101 1011100 111101101
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 150
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 47
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; to, in, be, of, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words they, i are repeated.
The author used the same word instead at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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