This is an analysis of the poem Love Lives Beyond The Tomb that begins with:

Love lives beyond
The tomb, the earth, which fades like dew- ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abAbcdcddbdb eaeafgfgabAb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,12,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101 01011111 1101 010101 1101 01000101 10111 110101 11010 10010101 11110 100100101 11001 11110111 1101 11110001 1101 11110011 1101 1011101 1101 010101011 1101 010111
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 325
  • Average number of words per stanza: 58
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, and, so are repeated.

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