This is an analysis of On The Slaughter by Hayyim Nahman Bialik.
Heaven, beg mercy for me! If there is
a God in you, a pathway through…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abcdefbg bhhfafXeci biXdccdc aegXXfXX
- Stanza lengths: 8,10,8,8,
- Metre: 1011011010 01010111 10011111 010111111 101110011 11111011 10110111 110011 1101001111 0010101110 1100010110 110110110 111101110 111011 10101010 11101101 110101001 1 101010101 01111010101 101101010 01011010 110101101 001010110100 1001000111 11110110 1100111 011101011 0100101110 011101011 10011011 100010101 101100111 1010010001
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 34
Repeated words/phrases
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