This is an analysis of the poem Shameful Death that begins with:
There were four of us about that bed;
The mass-priest knelt at the side,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaaaa bcbcbc adadad eaeaea fbfbfb Fcfcfc FbfbfbXeeee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,11,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101010111 0111101 110101101 1001101 10111111 1010101 1011001 1011001 1001011 010101 11011111 1010101 1111001 1110101 1111001 101101 110101 00101101 101111 1010101 00110101 011101 1010111 1011101 1100111 10101001 1101001 11001001 011011 111111 111011 1110111 11111001 10110101 1110100101 110101 111011 1110101 11011111 1011101 10111001001 11001001 111101 1111111 001101 11100111
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 178
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 46
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; he, and, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words he, sir, i are repeated.
The author used the same words he, i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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