This is an analysis of the poem On The Question Of Freedom that begins with:
Dachau’s ashes burn my feet
The asphalt smokes under me...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcd Xcdd dedb fbgX fdfd cfha XhdX XXgee Xf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,5,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010111 0111101 111011 1011 11011011001 111111 1011111010 101010111 11100010 1000011 1101111 0011111 11010101010 1001001001 00010010111 010111010001 110101110 10101011110 10111011010 0101011101011 111101011 11001010011010 11001011 110110101 1101001110011 00101010010001 1101001001001 0101011 110101101010 11011 10110000101 10101000 0110110 010110100001001
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 142
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 35
- 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; to, of, and, not, free are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, not are repeated.
The author used the same word yes at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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