This is an analysis of the poem The Great Pax Whitie that begins with:
In the beginning was the word
And the word was ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcXbdeE dccfe GbH GiH Xjkhfbge gXaalia gH XlbXcmajamghXhge jHibH mdegJ jjkl ac aE ggaeggaJaeXea
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,5,3,3,8,7,2,16,5,5,4,2,2,13,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 00010101 1011 1 101110 101110110 10111011 1011101 101 010011 010011 0010001 1010001 01101 00101 1101 11111 00101 11010100010100 111111 101001110110101 11111 1111010010 11110 11101011 0111101001 1000010001 0101 1110101010 11001 1101011011 10111 110101001 10010001010 11110101 101010 111111 11101000 0011001 11101 101010100 111101 11101 001001 110011 1111 1010011 11011 110110010 11000101 11110110 1101010111 01 01100001010 11111 11001110100 010101 111111 11101110 010101 1101101 0010101 111010101 101111001 11011101 0100 10011101 00010101 10111 101011001 101 10111 111010010 111101110 11100010 1110010 11111010 111 111010101 0100001101 0101 1110 11111
- Amount of stanzas: 15
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 163
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 82
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; word, and, death, to, all, genesis, row, witness, in, be are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the are repeated.
The author used the same words in, and 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 death, dude are repeated).
The poet repeated the same words still, shame at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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