This is an analysis of the poem The Murdered Lover that begins with:
Say a mass for my soul's repose, my brother,
Say a mass for my soul's repose, I need it,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Abab cdcd efef agag hehe aiai aeaeXAbab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10111101110 10111101110 10011010110 11011111110 10011011111 1101101001 11111010011 1111001101 11011011110 11111010110 10011011010 10101010110 11111110110 1111011001 10110110110 1111111011 110111000111 1001001001 11011110011 1101111011 11111011010 1111011001 111111110110 11111011111 1111110101010 1011001001 11111110010 1101101001 10111101110 101111110 10110110110 11011111110
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 177
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, me, i, you, it are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word say is repeated.
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