This is an analysis of the poem The Dwellings Of Our Dead that begins with:
They lie unwatched, in waste and vacant places,
In sombre bush or wind-swept tussock spaces, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aababXXcbcdXedeaaaaa bXXXXffgXgXXchcddidi aaaaaXajajeehehddcdc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,20,20,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111000111010 0111111010 110101 1101010 010011 110001010010 11000100100 110011 0101110 101101 01111100110 110101101010 110100 0101010 100100 110100111110 11110101010 010101 1101010 110101 11010111110 100010110100 110101 00110100 100100 11010101010 01111101010 11011 0101010 010001 110101111100 110111010100 111101 1111010 111101 10111101010 01010100010 110101 1111010 100101 01010111010 101110101110 110100 1101010 011111 11111101010 11110101110 101101 1101110 0111001 11111100110 01110111010 111111 1101110 0011001 11110111010 01011101010 110101 0100110 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 763
- Average number of words per stanza: 122
- Amount of lines: 60
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; of is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines them is repeated).
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