This is an analysis of the poem Tell Me, Brother, What Happens After Death? that begins with:
Tell me, brother, what happens after death?
The whole world is arguing about it --...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbcXXd eeda dcdd X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,4,4,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110110101 0110100010 1110101 10111010 11111101 10100110101 01000110010 11111110010 111010 010010010010 1111111 1011110 11010010 1001010010 1001010 0101101011010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 141
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; and, water are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines nothing, water are repeated).
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