This is an analysis of the poem To The One Of Fictive Music that begins with:

Sister and mother and diviner love,
And of the sisterhood of the living dead...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcdebfbd Xegdffhdd fgcdgdfcX eXgghdgaa Xe
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,9,9,2,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1011011001 10010000101 1111100101 1001010011 1110100101 11110111011 0101010011 0100011111 11010010101 1001010101 1101100111 1110001101 1101100111 1100110001 1100010101 11101110101 1111001101 00010010111 1110000111 1100100101 0101110101 10101010001 1100011111 1011110101 0101010001 1111110101 1101110100 1111111100 111110010001 11000101101 01001100101 1001001101 1100111111 0110010101 0111011111 00101011111 010110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 306
  • Average number of words per stanza: 56
  • Amount of lines: 38
  • 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, of, most are repeated.

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

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