This is an analysis of the poem Words For Departure that begins with:
Nothing was remembered, nothing forgotten.
When we awoke, wagons were passing on the warm summer pavements,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcXd efbecf eecg XXbc Xd egh XXf iic cXhbXaf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,6,4,4,2,3,3,3,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101010010 1101100101011010 01010101001 11011010100 101011 10101010101 111101010010 01011010 110101001010010 1101110011 11101010010 111 1011010 10111001 11111010 1 110101 101011001 1011001101 1011011 11011110 1001 1011010 0110110110 1 1110010 1010010 00101101 101001 1010101 11010100 00110111 01101111 101010 11010110110 11010100011010
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 123
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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, you, be are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word be is repeated.
The author used the same words nothing, you at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase you connects the lines.
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- Analysis of Leave-Taking
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