This is an analysis of the poem The Face Of Qana that begins with:

The face of Qana
Pale, like that of Jesus ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcdX dXeddbXdX adafeX XcgddddfdX dhdX aXXX faXifffffhjX abjX kbXlmXXgblliX ddXllkX XXmdXbnXX nddbndXX aXlcX XkbX fbffbdX llfddbXXja
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,9,6,10,4,4,12,4,13,7,9,8,5,4,7,10,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01010 111010 1011010 10111 1 110101011110 100101 001001 101001010 10100000110 111101011 1010101010 11111011 1 11010 1101 100100100010 10101001 1011001 1 1011011011 1010000100 1010001 101101 1010110 10101 111 10010001010 110010001001 1 11010101 1101111 10010101 1 11001010100010 0010010 01010100 1 10011110 110100 10011001011 10010 101101110 10111110 10111110 10111110 10001001010 1010010001 010111101110 1 1000111101000100 1010100011111 1110 1 110111001 10101011 110110100 010101 0101010 0101010111011011 1101010111100 101010101011 1101 1101 101010 1010010 1 11101011 11110110 0100010010010 00010111 1101011 110101101 1 111010101100 101100 11010010101001010 111101110 11000 1011 111111100101 101010 1 11101 0010001 01001 101001 1111 111 01001110 1 11010010 10101 101010 0101 1 110100101 0110010001011010 011010100110 1 0100010 010010110100100 101101101010 1011010 110010011 011010 1 101101111 110110101101111 111010101010110 11110101010111 111101010110011 01010101 1 11101010110 1101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 17
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 202
  • Average number of words per stanza: 37
  • Amount of lines: 116
  • 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; of, blasted, and, that, single, we, their, why, not, banu are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words blasted, we, blasting, a, what, and, the, why are repeated.

    The author used the same words they, what, we 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 reason, not are repeated).

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