This is an analysis of the poem When I Am Gone that begins with:
When I am gone, I pray you shed
No tears upon the grassy bed... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaabbccddeeffggg hhbbbbffaaiijjjjbbiiaag hhkkddffllffddddaaffllddg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 17,23,25,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11111111 11010101 11111101 10011111 1111101 11000101 11011101 01010011 11010101 11110101 01110111 00110111 11011101 01010101 011101110 110100010 1101 11111111 11110111 01111011 01010101 11010101 010010111 1100111010 011101010 11011101 11110111 11111111 11001101 1101001101 11111101 11110101 01110111 11111111 10111111 100111011 11011111 11010111 11010101 1111 11011101 11111111 01011101 110111001 11111101 11010101 110101011 11111111 11011101 11010101 11011010 01110111 01110111 10011101 01011101 010000101 11011111 11010111 110100111 11110101 01011101 11100111 11111111 11110011 1111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 771
- Average number of words per stanza: 144
- Amount of lines: 65
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; that, i, your, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words shall, to, the, and are repeated.
The author used the same word when at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word gone at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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