This is an analysis of the poem Poems For Piraye (9 To 10 O’clock Poems) that begins with:

Remembering you is good
in prison...

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  • Rhyme scheme: ABCDC Aaefeghicejklec AhmBieano Abejmpchho ABCDCX qlcgqairagcilarhqbaaqgmbX mbacc ggcgbcfllX eiciaimiXfmfccX HAalosclHAplpkimlicmbghAX iaabchhaX dcecsdicjsiqqdqscgbjgsgX oacochsehX ebichcjlrrbtblgjbaHX hjjjjeijlX babihibaacbgaX iceclfbhrhrllX Sejbqga Sogi
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,15,9,10,6,25,5,10,15,25,9,24,10,20,10,14,14,7,7,9,14,24,23,9,17,8,4,6,8,13,19,10,15,16,16,14,15,14,31,6,9,17,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0100100 010 0101 010011 11100110 0100100 11 01001011 11 00110 00101010101 010101 0101010011 01001001 11101 11100 01010011 01 0110 111011 0100100 110011 111111 010 10011101 111101 01111 100111 100111010 0100100 111111101 0101 01 11101011 111 1100101 11111011 001001 010 0100100 010 0101 010011 11100110 1 10110 10101 111011 010 11110 10 111 10 101 1110 11 11101 011 11 110 110101 10 10 11 1101 1010 10 010 11010 01011 1101 010010 1101 1001101 010101101 10 0101010 10101 11011 0101010 1101 0101011 11 0011 01011 101 11011 101 1011 1011 110011 1111 1011 111010 101 111101 111101 11010 1110010 01011 101101 01001010 011111 10101101 1101001 111 10101 0111 101101 01001010 0111010101 1100 1011100101 111110 1111001 1111111 11011001 01 111 10111101 110 10010001111000 101101 01001010 01011 01001 0011110 01001 001111 11001 11111111 10100111101 001111111 01011 1011101 111010 111011 1110111010001 111111 1110011 111111101 110110 110110 11111 1110011 10011011010 11010 1101 11010 11111 1101010101 010101110 1110 1110 11110 11111 1101001110 1 111 11001 1101011 0101 0101010 10101 1000100111 100010010 1101 01011 1011 11010 1 0101 1 1101 11010 011001 100 10100 0110010 0101 1001 10001 11000 110 01 101001 1111 01011 1001 001001 0101 01110 011001 00111001 1111000111 111010101 11010 01011 01010 1001 100101010 0101 1011 0101010101 10101 0101 1000100101 1011 1011010 110101111 0011 01011 0111 11011 00111 110001 1111 011 1000110 111 11100110 1101011 11010100 01110 100010 01011 101111 111 0100100 0100010 010100110 11110101 1100100101 101111 1110 011110 0111 01010 0101011 01011 1110 11001 10011 01011011 10010011 01100101 1110110 111 01011 1101100101 010101 1110101010 010101 01100110 1101011 01001010 1011011 1110001011001 110100111 0110 1111010101 101010101 01011 101010001 10101 111 01011 101001 1010100 11 0111011 010010 01010011 101011111 01 101011111 11100011 101010001 10101 111001 011010 1101010001 110100101010 1110 010 011 01011 111101 1010111 11111 101010101 11010 1111011 1110111 01011111 1101001 100100001 10100011 1001011 0110101 1011001 101101010 011001011 11111011 1110111 10100100100 111001101101 1111001 1011100111 01011 10011 111001011 100110101 11 1110101010100 1011001001 110010101011 110010010 01011 1110100111 11111011 011010 11010011111 111011101 111111 10111110 10100111111 1110111101 00111 1110010 01010011 1111 111110 11010 100100 01011 11110110 0101000101 11110110 01010110 11110110 110101 111 01011 0110000100 011101 10010011 101001 11011100100 011111 010101101 11111110 10101001 01011 010100101 1101110001 1111001 11001011 111011010 1111 010010 01011 00101 011010 1001 000101 1010 0101 111 1101 1110 10101 111 1110 01011 011011001 1110 1110001 1100010 010101 101101001 1010001 010111100 111011101 01010101 10100101 011010 1000101 010100101 1101011110 001101 10010010 01101 01011 11 01001010 01000101 11 01011110 11 010101101 101111 1100010 1010010 0111 011010 00100110 1010 001101 11 00101011 1110111001 0101111 01011010 111011 10101011 1110 111011 01011 11110101 010111 111010001 11101110 110101 11011 1111100010 10100101010 1010001 111 1010 1100010 1110 1110010 101110 01011 11011 0111 011111 111 10011 10110010 11101010 11110 1110011 1101 1111110 1101101 010101010100 10100010 1101 01011 0111011 01101011 0100111 0101010101 01 0101 01 11010 001 11001 0110101 111 110 01011 1101000111 0100001 111010 001111 01011 011011111 111 1101 1101 11011 11011 100101001 00010010 011011 01011 100010 01010010 100010 010010100 10000101 01010 100010 010 10001 10001 1000101 11110100 00101100 01011 101 11001010 1001 10 111 1010 1010 1111 0101 10101111 0101 010 010101 101010 1101111 101101 101001 10101001 0101001 10011 1010111010 1111101011 1111 11010 011010 1010010 1111 1111 1111 11011101 01011 11001011 100101 1000110 1010101 10110 010100 11010 1101 10010010 11 1010101 1 1101 11 01011 10101111 1111001 101101 111 1111 111000101 110110 11000101 11 101110 110 11 100011000100 0110 0110 001 01011
  • Amount of stanzas: 42
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 321
  • Average number of words per stanza: 61
  • Amount of lines: 557
  • Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, such, you, like, your, i, at, look, see, touch, love, thing, and, we, half, on, enemy, to, in are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, your, you're, although, i, living, the, to, like, you, from, wherever, on, this, of, their, and, enemy, now, half, in are repeated.

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

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