This is an analysis of the poem Here Dead We Lie that begins with:
Here dead we lie
Because we did not choose ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXb Xaab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111 011011 011101 0111 1001 010101 111100 1101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 93
- Average number of words per stanza: 19
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (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; we is repeated.
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