This is an analysis of the poem Blessed Are The Dead. (From The German) that begins with:
O, how blest are ye whose toils are ended!
Who, through death, have unto God ascended!... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccXX ccdd eeaa XfggXffaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111111110 1111101010 11010 0011111010 1111001010 1010101010 11010 1111101110 1111011010 1011101110 11110 1010100010 1110111110 1111111010 01110 1111101110 1111101010 00101011010 11110 1001001010 1111101111 1111101011 010010 1010111010
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 149
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, us are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines us is repeated).
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- summary of Blessed Are The Dead. (From The German);
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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