This is an analysis of the poem The Conqueror’s Grave that begins with:
WITHIN this lowly grave a Conqueror lies,
And yet the monument proclaims it not,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaccddeed baabfeXfegeg hhdbdbiibbee jhjhkddkdff baballhhbbii mhmhmddgnXn
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,12,12,11,12,11,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 01010101001 1101000101 1101011101 0100011101 10110100101 10010101001 010101 001101 01011110101 11111100001 1100010101 1001011101 1101011101 11010101001 0101010101 110101011001 1000111 010100 1001000101 1011010101 01110110101 1101010101 0101010101 1111011101 1101010101 1101010111 1111010101 11010101001 11001000101 1101010111 0100001101 010111 010101 1111010111 1101111101 1101010001 1101010111 11010010111 1001011111 01110100101 110101 0100101 1101010001 11010010111 0111011101 1000001101 01001001001 1010010101 11110101001 11110000101 11011010101 110010110101 111101 111101 0101000111 1101010001 11010100001 1101010101 1111010111 11110010101 1101001111 0111011101 100111 011110 1111010111 1101110101 0101111101 101010100100 11000010101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 476
- Average number of words per stanza: 86
- Amount of lines: 69
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, with are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words alone, and are repeated.
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- summary of The Conqueror’s Grave;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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