This is an analysis of the poem He Embraces His Murderer that begins with:
He embraces his murderer.
May he win his heart: Do you feel angrier if I survive?...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXabXXBcbbXdXBXcdbaeae
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 22,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10100100 111011111000101 10010 1011011011 111101 111110 1111 11100101111 1011110001011 111100101111 010010101100111101 10100 110101001011010001 1111 1111010011011 1010100010010 1011011010011010 110101011011 1010 10101 11010 011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 787
- Average number of words per stanza: 156
- Amount of lines: 22
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
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; you is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word what is repeated.
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