This is an analysis of the poem Slain And Unknown… that begins with:
Slain and unknown. Neither gathered up by forgetfulness
nor dispersed by memory…they're forgotten ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaabXXXXcbdXcddXXdXdddX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 23,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011010111000 10111000010 01011011101 111100100100100 101010 11011010 1110010110101010 001010101010 11011010 0101001110 0110 11000110101001010011010 1011001000111001 0101010101 111010010 101111100110101 11010110111 100101101111 110111 10111110110 01011110101111 0010110010100110 0011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1050
- Average number of words per stanza: 191
- Amount of lines: 23
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; victim, ', and are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).
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