This is an analysis of the poem The Victims that begins with:
When Mother divorced you, we were glad. She took it and
took it in silence, all those years and then...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdbXaddefggehfdhfacXaaXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 26,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1100111011101 1001011011 11110010 1101101011 101011011 10101010101 110111010 0101101001 110101001 110011010 110110101111 11111 10010110101 100110111 1111010011110 01110011 010101011 10101101 10110101101 1001101 1001101010 1001111100 10111101101 10000100111 1001011110 110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1054
- Average number of words per stanza: 193
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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, you, it, your are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word your is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines away is repeated).
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- summary of The Victims;
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