This is an analysis of the poem At Shelley’s Grave that begins with:
Beneath this marble, mute of praise,
Is hushed the heart of One... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababccdX eaeaffXg dhdheeii jXjcffdd klklffcc hbhbmmXn nonoccdd gXgdpXXh ijijppii efefohcc kpkpnncc bXbkccqq
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010101 010101 11011101 010101 1001 0101 11111111 1011110 1100101001 110101 11011101 010101 0101 0111 10010100 010100111 01000101 100111 01010101 110101 1111 1101 01011101 110000101 01010101 011101 100101111 11011 1101 0111 01111101 01101001 11111101 1111001 10110101 101111 0101 0111 11111101 1110011 11011101 111111 11011101 111111 0001 1101 11000111 01110101 11010111 0100010 11011101 0011110 0111 1111 11010101 110110111 11010101 010010 11010111 111001 1101 1101 1111010110 11011111 11010011 110111 11010101 011101 1011 1111 11011101 110110001 01111011 110111 11110111 111111 10010 0111 11010101 11110100 11110001 010101 11011101 111101 1011 0101 11011101 11010001 11011111 110010 11110101 110101 0101 1101 10110111 10110100
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 233
- Average number of words per stanza: 43
- Amount of lines: 96
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; no, to, thou, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words no, the, i are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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