This is an analysis of the poem Separation that begins with:

People worship god.
I worship this separation from you....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXB cdeB XdeB fafb fceB ggXB fXeB XedB egeB X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10101 1100101001 0011001010 0101001 10111110101 111110 101001101 0101001 0110111 010110 1110111 0101001 110010000 110001 110111 10101001 11011000 10011 110101 0101001 0101011 0101111 011111 0101001 1100101111 01110100 011101 0101001 1111 101011 010101 0101001 0111011 111001 01110101 0101001 010010011010
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 104
  • Average number of words per stanza: 20
  • Amount of lines: 37
  • Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; it is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word sometimes is repeated.

    The author used the same word people at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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

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  • summary of Separation;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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