This is an analysis of the poem Requiescat that begins with:
Strew on her roses, roses,
And never a spray of yew!... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXa bcbc dbdb efef
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101010 1100101 0101100 111101 0101010 1100101 10111010 111100 0111010 0100111 11101110 111101 01001010 0101111 0101010 010101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 120
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; her is repeated.
The author used the same word her at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Requiescat;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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