This is an analysis of the poem The Belt-Bomb Girl's Suicide Note that begins with:

The King had sent captains of the army...
Their sins and their lawlessness, I'll remember ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcd efdf gehi d fj g fekfgid l jjkjjjjjjd m mbbde l ddklnean c ccdd n anlflijddbhb X dXdjaX l lcjhdXXe X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,1,2,1,7,1,10,1,5,1,8,1,4,1,12,1,6,1,8,1,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0111100010 11111001010 11111011011 1010110111 110101010 1010101111 1001001010 10010001 110111011 0110010101 1101110111 1101101 1101110110 000101000111 00010010100 11 1100010000101 11010110 111001001 111101001 11010101 10101111001 1111111001110 1010 10100100100 10010010100 10100011 1011100 01010000100100 101000100100 1011110100 101011001100 101001001010 001010 11 11001010011 0101101010 010110101010 1111111 1010110011 110 1101010010001 10100101111 00101111 11110110 11010100010 010010101 101101010011010 011111101001001 1101 01010110101 111010110010 011100110010 1111001100111 110 11001001010100 010101101010 0011001010010 0010101101011 1010010001001010 01010110000101 01010100010 011010110001 0110011001 10110101011010 111101000011 110110 1100 0110110001 0101000101011 00100001001010 0101010101010110 01110010001010 1011011010011000 11010 1101001010 010010110000101 11010001110 111010000101010 111001110 01010001010 11111101 01010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 23
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 146
  • Average number of words per stanza: 25
  • Amount of lines: 86
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, this, right, view, to, suffering, abstain, from, speech, not, of, mindfulness are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i'll, i, this, right, abstain, do, the, of, are repeated.

    The author used the same words right, at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines suffering, speech, livelihood, are repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase connects the lines.

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  • summary of The Belt-Bomb Girl's Suicide Note;
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