This is an analysis of the poem Bereavement that begins with:
How stern are the woes of the desolate mourner
As he bends in still grief o'er the hallowed bier,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXbcccbdedeabbe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111010010010 111011100101 11000110010010 11010001001 110011011110 111011010010 1011011110010 111011001011 11111101001 11001001001 11101011001 010111001001 010010010110 111011001101 01001001001 11101101001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 824
- Average number of words per stanza: 145
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 51 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words as, when are repeated.
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- summary of Bereavement;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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