This is an analysis of the poem Epilogue that begins with:
These, to you now, O, more than ever now -
Now that the Ancient Enemy... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbXXccde XfabbegdgXXfX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,13,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011111101 11010100 11111111111 010011 1011000101 0110001111 01011 1011101011001 0111011100 1100 1011010101 111111 11111111101 11111111111 0101001 01110001001 1001110101 01111100100 0101010101 101101 111 101111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 404
- Average number of words per stanza: 75
- Amount of lines: 22
- 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; now is repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase now connects the lines.
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