This is an analysis of the poem At His Grave that begins with:
LEAVE me a little while alone,
Here at his grave that still is strown ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbccb ccXdde dddXXd ddfggf eehddh hhiaai ccacca ggjdXj eeXddi kkdkkX llhffh ccmnnm aaedde ccfddf aafddf ddmeem dddeedXccimmi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,13,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101 11011101 01001011 010100111 01010111 111101 01011101 1100101011 011101 111101011 10111101 010101 11100101 11011101 101101 00110111 110111101 111111 11011111 11011101 110101 10010111 01110111 110001 11111001 11010101 111101 10110111 11010001 010001 11010101 11110111 110101 111111011 10110101 100101 10111101 10101001 100111 11110101 11010101 011001 11110111 11011101 110101 11101101 11111001 110101 01010101 01110101 110110 11001101 01011101 011011 11010111 10011101 1001001 11010101 10010101 010110 01010101 11011101 110101 11010001 11010101 110101 10111111 01010101 111111 111101001 100101001 111111 11010111 01010101 111011 11111101 10010101 110101 10110111 010110101 110101 01010101 11010101 010101 11010101 11010101 010111 10010101 01100101 100001 10010111 01110001 100111 11000101 10110101 010101 11110101 10011111 110101 1001111001 11111111 0100111 111111010 100111010 111011 11010111 01111101 100101
- Amount of stanzas: 18
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 213
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 108
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- 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; and, d, of, his are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and, how are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines d is repeated).
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