This is an analysis of the poem Charles And Peter that begins with:
Ere Gabriel's note to silence died
All graves of men were gaping wide.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aa XX XX bX cc cc dd aX aa aa ee ee Xe Xb XX ff XX cX X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,1,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110010101 11010101 110010011 11000101 110111101 11111101 01110101 01111111 01010101 11000101 110101101 01010101 11010001 01110001 11110101 110101100 01011101 110111011 110110101 111010101 11110101 111111111 11010111 10111110 111101110 11010111 110101111 11010101 101010011 101010101 01110101 11111001 1111010110 1100100010 111011011 111001111 1
- Amount of stanzas: 19
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 69
- Average number of words per stanza: 14
- Amount of lines: 37
- 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; ', of, i, yes are repeated.
The author used the same word 'we've at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' 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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