This is an analysis of the poem For What She Had Done that begins with:
She had to die.
This Omoo knew....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abccabddeffXfgGaXehXgGhcXfXcXcXihiXfchgaifccchi XX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 47,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101 0101 110111110 1101010 1111111101 1101 111111001 010110011 10010 111001 11001 1111101 11111111110001010 11111101 1011010 1110111010111010001 10100011110 1111100010 1111101 1111101 111111101 1011010 1101 1111010 11111110 1101110111101 100110110 1011111111100111110 110110 110110 0101110 01110101 10101111 101110101 10010110 0111011 1001010011101010 1010001011 10111110 1011001 101 11110010010 11101111011001011101101010 11010 11010 110111 11101101 11110010 010011100
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 894
- Average number of words per stanza: 179
- Amount of lines: 49
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; who, and, said, her are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words who, and, for, her, many, then are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines her, cave are repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase her connects the lines.
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