This is an analysis of the poem The Death Of Aliatar that begins with:

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  • Rhyme scheme: X ababacdXeFGF hiXijkakeFGF jbXbcjgjEFGF liaiXjljeFGF XaiaagagEFGF edaXhcdcEFGF
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,12,12,12,12,12,12,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0010 1101010 110101 11010101 011101 11000101 110001 11110101 110100 1100110 00101001 00110010 110101 0100010 011101 11011100 011111 11010101 110101 010101001 010101 1100110 00101001 00110010 110101 1100110 010101 01010110 0101001 11110101 110101 11010101 011101 1100110 00101001 00110010 110101 0100110 010111 11011101 010101 11010100 1101001 11011100 010111 1100110 00101001 00110010 110101 1111010 110001 01011111 111101 11111101 111111 010011001 010101 1100110 00101001 00110010 110101 1101110 111101 01100101 1010100 010101001 010101 01010100 01000101 1100110 00101001 00110010 110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 308
  • Average number of words per stanza: 55
  • Amount of lines: 74
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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; of, they are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, they are repeated.

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

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