This is an analysis of the poem The Mrk Of Cain that begins with:
The poor pilgrims dragged themselves wearily
along to Mecca through gray Syria, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXXbbcdXdefeXXghhhXbebeceiXeXdXddjbj cbebgegeckgkXXlbegdXXeifiX dede hghgX XddighghbbdXdadhdhggXlbX bbeefgfgfifi Xe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 37,26,4,5,24,12,2,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 0110101100 0101011100 101101 0101001 010010101 0010101 1111011100010 10100010 11010111 101111 101100001 0110100 01010111 110110101 11010100 011110 111100110111 10101011111 01001101001 1100010101011 111101010 0110110101 0101110101 1000100111 111101110 10101001101 10100011010 100101011 110100101 1100 11011 010010110 01101001 1001001010 101111111 10110110 0110111 1111100 110101010 111010 10101101001 101011001 111001001001 1011011001 11010101 111010110 1110000111 11011110 11110101 1010110101 1111 010101 011110010 1010101 111111 1011001 1110100 100010101 110 1110 110011000 00101001010 00101010 10110101 101001111 1010010111 110010011 111011 1010110101 101010001 01010101 111000 1100100 00101 01001101 0100001010 1011000101 10101111011 01111010101 110001001011 1111111 1011011 1010111 010101010101 10101111 110100 1011011 110010101 010011110 110001011011 1010100101 1001101 101010100 011110011 01010101 00101011 110110101010 10100100 110110011 101010111 1101011110 11111001 10111101 010100101 101110100 111001001 100100010 0101101 1 0101101000110010001
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 558
- Average number of words per stanza: 97
- Amount of lines: 110
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- 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; repent is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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