This is an analysis of the poem Down Among The Dead Men that begins with:
Within my dark and narrow bed
I rested well, new-laid:... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaa bcbc adaX efef gaga Xggg ahah didi ghgh egeX hbhX gegX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 01111101 110111 11011101 010001 01010111 011101 01010111 110101 11011101 111101 01011111 1101100 11001111 111101 11000101 110101 11011101 110101 111101011 110101 1101100 010101 11011101 110111 110010101 0100101 11111001 011101 101000101 111001 110011111 0100101 11110110 011101 11011100 110111 11011101 011101 11110001 0100010 11010101 011001 01010101 110101 11010101 010101 11110111 010011
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 117
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, it, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, my are 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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