This is an analysis of the poem Who Made The Law ? that begins with:
Who made the Law that men should die in shadows ?
Who spake the word that blood should splash in lanes ?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaaB XaXaB XXXXXcabBBcb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,12,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011111011 1101111101 11011101011 1101011111 1101 11011111010 1101010101 110111110100 1101010101 1101 111010111001 11010101111 10011111110 1101110010111 11011101011 011101011101 11010101101111 11101 11101 11101 110101 1101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 319
- Average number of words per stanza: 60
- Amount of lines: 22
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
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; who, that, should, he, made, law are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words who, he are repeated.
The author used the same word who at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines law is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word law at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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