This is an analysis of the poem The Sacrifice Of Er-Heb that begins with:

Er-Heb beyond the Hills of Ao-Safai
Bears witness to the truth, and Ao-Safai... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXAB cdefXgX ahifih XhcfeXXXhf hhf cjkjejklfi GegcfjmaXGg jcI Kdfi GhgnG jcIKgk chkoXfjfI ngceipHapchpcf ogclXhdqdecXqcHh cfccccnha hXnhXheoeg XchheXkhgcci GhfeXc dagc egXgh dXgfXch Xef djXXgXhdidfXe hXe gfgfd cedif mfhfcg ehcXXcfki XXAB
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,7,6,10,3,10,11,3,4,5,6,9,14,16,9,10,12,6,4,5,7,3,13,3,5,5,6,9,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 0101010110 1100011110 1101010101 11010010100 0100100101 0101000101 0101011101 1101010101 0101000111 0101010101 0100110101 1001110111 1001110111 1001011101 1101010101 1101000101 0101010001 0010010101 1101111111 1100010111 1101010101 1111111101 1101100101 1010010110 1101010101 1101011101 1001101011 1101010101 0111000101 0101001001 1011110001 0101111101 1011110101 0101111101 1011110101 0101111101 1101011101 1101011101 1101011101 1101111101 1101100101 1101010111 11000010101 1101010101 1101010001 1000100101 0101110111 1111111101 1101010101 0101110101 1111110111 1101110101 0101011111 1111110111 1101000111 1111100101 1011110001 1101010111 1101100101 1101010111 0101000111 1101010101 0101110101 1101110101 0110011111 1111110111 1101000111 0101100101 100101 0101 0101010100 1110110101 1111010101 1110010111 1111010101 1011110101 110100101001 1111110111 1110000111 1011111111 0100010001 10011011001 1010011101 1101001101 10011010101 1101010100 1101001101 11011011111 11000100101 1111000101 1101000101 01010001001 11100101101 1101000111 0111011111 0101111111 1100010101 01010101001 1101000101 1111110101 111101000101 0101011001 1111010101 10110100100 11100101111 1101110001 10011010101 1111010101 0101011101 0101010101 10001010101 1111100101 0101011101 0101010101 0101010111 1101010101 01001010101 1110010101 11010101010 1111010101 1111010001 10111101110 0101010101 1000110101 1111000101 1111010101 1111 110101 1001010101 11001011100 01110001010 1111010101 1101011010 01001110011 1101010101 1111111101 1001001001101 0001100101 11001100101 1101100101 1101010111 01011101001 1101010001 1101010001 1101110111 0101111001 1101111101 1101110101 0111110101 0101010101 1110010111 010100101110 1100110101 0111110011 1001010101 0110110111 0101011001 01011101001 01101001110 01000100111 1001010101 1111010010 1111010101 1101100100 1101010101 11010011101 10010010010 0101010110 1111011111 1101011100 1111010101 1101010111 0101111101 0101010001 1011000101 1101011010 1101110111 1011111101 0101111110 0101110111 1111010101 1101100101 1101010101 0101110101 0100101101 11100100111 1101010001 1101111111 1111110111 1101010101 100010111 0101010001 1101110101 0111000110 0011010111 111 0010001 1101010101 0101010111 0101010100 1101010010 0100010001 0101010101 0101010101 1101011001 0101010110 1100011110 1101010101 11010010100
  • Amount of stanzas: 29
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 313
  • Average number of words per stanza: 58
  • Amount of lines: 209
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, and, gods, all, where, meets, downward, men, her, of, she are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words taman, and, like, ye, the are repeated.

    The author used the same words that, then 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 safai is repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word lay at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase dropped connects the lines.

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