This is an analysis of the poem John Kinsella's Lament For Mr. Mary Moore that begins with:
A BLOODY and a sudden end,
Gunshot or a noose,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXbXcXcdaBAddXdbcXcdaBA bdcdcbabXaBA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,12,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010101 11101 11111111 11111 1111110 110101 11010101 111101 11011101 110101 11111101 111101 1101010 11111 01011111 1101001 1111110 111011 01010101 10111 11011101 110111 11111101 111101 01110111 11101 1010101 11101 1101011 110101 11111111 11111 11010100 110111 11111101 111101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 513
- Average number of words per stanza: 102
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, no are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words but, and, no are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word dead at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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