This is an analysis of the poem They Would Love To See Me Dead that begins with:
They would love to see me dead, so they say: He belongs to us, he is ours.
For twenty years I have heard their footsteps on the walls of the night....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXXababcdcbabdbXdbaXX X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 22,1,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 111011111110101101 1100111111101001 110111111111100 010010101001 0111111 1110 111101111 1010110 1111101001110101010 1110101101010 010111101111101011 101100100111 010100111011011 01110100101110 11111111 0111010110010110 11111111 11110001011111 11111 111111101110111111 100111111101 100110000111 0101101011011
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 601
- Average number of words per stanza: 118
- Amount of lines: 23
- Average number of symbols per line: 51 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
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; they, of, i, you, like are repeated.
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