This is an analysis of the poem Murderers that begins with:
He was my best and oldest friend.
I'd known him all my life....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcc acaccc dedeaa eXeXff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111101 111111 11010101 111101 11010001 11110001 11011101 110001 11111101 010101 11111111 11101101 11000101 111111 11111001 100111 11110101 0100110001 11011111 10111110 10010111 100111 11011111 011101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 192
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; he, she are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word he is repeated.
The author used the same word he at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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