This is an analysis of the poem Dead that begins with:
“ON board the Petrel, in St. Lucia's bay,
Of yellow fever—agèd twenty-nine.”... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ab cdefghgdi jefhdcjhhXX ggjggjhjjac haegiXdd khgjgjjheeghXhhjdfXckgegXbhbggbahbegagaggbgcegi Xagddbfhf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,9,11,11,8,47,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101001101 010101101 1011110101 0111 101101 0101010111 1001010101 0101010101 1111110101 1001011101 1001011101 10110011101 1111010101 110101 1111 1101010111 0111111001 010110111 0101011001 1001010111 1111010101 0101100001 0101010101 1101000101 01001010101 01011100001 0101010100 11001010111 01001010101 0011001101 0111011011 1101011111 1111110101 1101010111 0100011101 1011100101 0110010101 1101010001 1011011100 10110001011 0101010101 0101010001 0110010101 0110010101 11010011101 01111100111 01010101110 1101010111 1101100101 1101011101 1101111101 1101111100 0101010111 0101111011 0111010101 1101010111 1111111111 1011110101 1101111 111 0101110101 1001010101 1111110101 0111010011 1101010001 0011011101 0101110101 0100110111 1001010111 1111110111 1101001101 1101010101 1101011101 1011100101 111101011 11010101001 1101 101101 11010100101 01111100101 1111010111 1001000101 1101110101 0111010101 1001010101 1111011101 10001011101 1111111 111 1111111101 0111010101 0111110111 1110110011 1111010 111 0111111111 0101110111
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 584
- Average number of words per stanza: 105
- Amount of lines: 97
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; her, and, in, she, night, of, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, of, she, o, the are repeated.
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- summary of Dead;
- central theme;
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