This is an analysis of the poem The End And The Beginning that begins with:

After every war
someone has to clean up....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcd defg effgf XdXa cfca Xfeb effeXcd fXgd XaaddX XgcXf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,5,4,4,4,7,4,6,5,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101001 111011 11 10011101 11101010 001001 101110 11 111011 01110 1001 101 1101 111010010 01101 11101010 1001 101001 110 1010011 10101 110101 111110 10110 01001 11101 1010101 11110 11010001 101011111 100101 10101 010010 0111110 101100 110000101 111 111011 1111 11110 11110 1100110110 00111101 10101 111011 101001 10101
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 111
  • Average number of words per stanza: 21
  • Amount of lines: 47
  • Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 4
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, and are repeated.

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

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines little is repeated).

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  • summary of The End And The Beginning;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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