This is an analysis of the poem To My End And To Its End... that begins with:

-Are you tired of walking
my son, are you getting tired? ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abCbdefgXXggceghCfgceXgiXehdefgcjgfbfjcaiaaXbXg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 47,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1110010 11111010 110 11111101 1111110111 1111101 1111110 0010111 010010011 00010101 1000011 01011000010 001001110 111 101001 1110111 110 10010110111 01110110 1010010110110 0011011 1010011010 1101111 10111010101 0101110011 0010010 1110111 11011101 101011101 11011011 11011110101 101011011110 1011 00110110111101 01010011101110 110111010 1111011 11111011101 111010110 110010 1 1010 10010 110010 111001 0101101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 738
  • Average number of words per stanza: 143
  • Amount of lines: 46
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • 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; know, carry are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines beginning is repeated).

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