This is an analysis of the poem Your Grief.... that begins with:
Your grief for what youve lost holds a mirror
up to where you're bravely working. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XX aX XXa aaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,3,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111111010 10111010 0100111101 10101101001 1110110110110 0001101111110 110101 11010001001100101 01110010101000 110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 107
- Average number of words per stanza: 18
- Amount of lines: 10
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; and is repeated.
The author used the same word your at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- idea of the verse;
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