This is an analysis of the poem Remember The Messengers that begins with:
A sliding into despair can be avoided,
If one dares not to accept it....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABB cXXcbXdbb ABB aeaXX cXfcXc GhgGhbb XXfaach ABBa caggaad de XXXafdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,9,3,5,6,7,7,4,7,2,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010000110010 01110010 1011101 010001001 101010 110100011 1001011011 11001011 1 11010 11010101000 101001001101010 010000110010 01110010 1011101 1010010010010 01001011011 1101101 0110000 10101101 010100011010 11011 10101 1111011101 001001 1010101 1011111001 101110 01101001010 1011111001 1011101010 10110000111 0110101110100 111110101 01001010010 11100101 11110011 10111 01 1101011010 010000110010 01110010 1011101 11001001001 1011001111 101111010100010 101001110110001 10010010 011000101 0110111010 10001001010 010011101010010 001001010101101000 111000 11011011101001 010010001100010 110100011010 110001000101 11
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 185
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 59
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; and, to, with are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word a at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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