This is an analysis of the poem The Vampire that begins with:
She rose among us where we lay.
She wept, we put our work away....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaabaaab cccdeeed dddffff gggffff hhXijjji jXjifffi aXaXaXX aaiiiii ibiibib iiiciX fffikki iigjjjg dddgggggXbbbigggi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,7,7,8,8,7,7,7,6,7,7,17,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11011111 11111101 11110111 110101 11010101 11111101 11011111 110101 11101101 010011100 01111100 110111 110100011 11111101 11011011 111101 11010111 01110101 11111101 1101 01110101 110011111 010101 110010001 11010101 11010111 011111 11110111 11011101 011101 11111100 10111100 11110111 100101 01110101 10010111 101100101 111101 11011101 01111101 11110111 110111 01010111 010101001 11010111 010101 10111111 11011100 110010111 111101 11011110 111101000 11001010 11011101 010011101 111101 11110101 11111111 10010101 110111 11111101 011111 11110001 11111011 111101 10111111 110101 11110101 11110001 11110111 110001 01010011 110111 1100111001 110101001 1100111001 010101 11010101 01010101 110101 11010101 11110001 111101 11111001 11110101 101100111 111111 11111111 110011101 10011111 010101 11001101 11000101 11000101 1101001 01110111 01111101 11101111 100111 1110101 11011111 110100111 11111
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 249
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 103
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; she, our, and, her, so, we, some, no, from are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words she, and, with, we, no, blown are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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