This is an analysis of the poem The Death Of Richard Wagner that begins with:
Mourning on earth, as when dark hours descend,
Wide-winged with plagues, from heaven; when hope and mirth... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXB bab abaB cdcD dcd XdcD dedE edeXdedE
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,3,4,4,3,4,4,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 10111111001 11010101111 1111011100 1011 0101010111 1011010111 1101011101 1111110111 1011010111 11010011111 1011 0111111111 11111110001 11010011111 0111 0101011111 110100111011 1101110101 1101011110 01111001001 11010110111 0111 00100100100100100101 00100101101100110110 01001010011111011 001001 101001000100101110111 110010010100100101 1111010111100111111 111010111100100101 0010110111110100111 110010010110101001 001001
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 197
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 35
- Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, that, of, from, might are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, from 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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