This is an analysis of the poem Many Do Not Recover At All that begins with:

With a heart weak and weeping.
I've been there....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aBcdeaBfg dddddfh XgXdXc Xcd fXcg gIXffgIgghic cgeiX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,7,6,3,4,12,5,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0011110 101 10101101 1010010101 101011001 011110 101 101 110010 01110111010 111111 111101010 11011 111 0100110011 1111 1111111100010 110001 11001001 1111010 1110111 01000101010 10011 0101010111 01101010 110101011 01010111101 01110001000111 11111101 1011001001101 11111011 1101111000 1010 111 011001001101 11111011 11101111 111111 010111 10101 0110110 10001010100 11 011 101101011 110100100100
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 200
  • Average number of words per stanza: 36
  • Amount of lines: 46
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • 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; to is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word for is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines out is repeated).

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