This is an analysis of the poem An Obituarian that begins with:
Death-poet Pickering sat at his desk,
Wrapped in appropriate gloom;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efeX dfdX ddXd ghgh idid
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 1101001101 1001001 0101101100 10101001 1001001001 01011101 11001001011 1100101 10101111101 001111101 00100111001 11011001 0100100111 001001001 10101101001 1100101 11100100101 1101101 01011111011 11111001 01001111001 1101111 11100111101 11100101 1101100101 1110101 10110110101 0100101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 148
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; of, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word then is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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