This is an analysis of the poem And They Don'T Ask… that begins with:
And they don't ask: What comes after death?
Though more intimate with the book of Paradise ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXXXcXbccXXcXXXcXadcXdX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 111111101 111000010101 100100110101 0010101111 010110111 1111010101 00101010010100 10101 11011101 111001001 111010111101 0100 1110010 110101100101 11100100 110111 11011100111 01011111011010 010101011 10100011010001 1110010111100 1110010101111 11110111 1110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 995
- Average number of words per stanza: 180
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; with, we are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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