This is an analysis of the poem Ignorance Has Died that begins with:
Why are they so gloomy?
Sitting and dressed as if for mourning? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ab cdX Xefe bghX i XceacdX jh fkblc c XXXlgX i Xgclje k X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,3,4,4,1,7,2,5,1,6,1,6,1,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111110 101110110 11011011 100010 101000101000 1 1110100 11110 1001101 1110 1110111011 00111001 11101 1111110111 111 11110110 011111111101 1001111010 011111010 0101 1010111011101 100110 10111010 11111010011 1100011 1110 11110101 110101111111 111110101 1 11111111100 1001101111 011110111 111101 11000111 11010 1 10100110100010001 01001111 01111111 1101010 111110 11111100011 1101
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 100
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, to, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
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