This is an analysis of the poem The Song Of The Widow that begins with:
In the beginning life was good to me;
it held me warm and gave me courage....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXabXcc dadefd dXeabg hXfdXg Xh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,6,6,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0001011001 011111110 1001011011 11111100 11011101 1100011111 11011111100 11010111010 1110111 1101110110 1111 1111011011 111111111 11011 1101011111 1110010100 110111 1111011100 0101111111 11010110101 110110101010 1000101101000 1000111 01001000111 11011101111 111101010 0101101010
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 203
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- 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; me, no, more, and, your are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase fate connects the lines.
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- summary of The Song Of The Widow;
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