This is an analysis of the poem The Passing Of 'Boss' Shepherd that begins with:
The sullen church-bell's intermittent moan,
The dirge's melancholy monotone,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccbbbaadd eeaaaffggeehhgghhh ciXaaccbbeeddjj jjhhaaiicc bbkkiiccee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,18,15,10,10,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0101110101 0101010101 0101010101 0111100101 0111010101 0101010101 1111010101 1101000101 0101010101 1101011111 0101011111 1011010101 0101000101 1101111111 1100011111 1101010101 1100010001 1101011101 1100011101 0100010001 1011000101 0111000111 1101110101 1001110101 0011010101 1111000101 1101101101 0111010101 11001011101 1101010011 1111111111 10101011101 110101010 1 1110011001 1011010101 1001010101 1101010111 1101110101 1101010001 1100110101 0101011101 0110010011 0111010101 1100010101 0101011101 0101010111 1101010101 0011110101 1101010001 1111001101 0001111001 0101010001 1101010111 1101010101 0101000101 1101110001 1101010101 0100011101 1111011101 1011010101 0101000101 0100100111 1101000101 0101111111 0101011101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 538
- Average number of words per stanza: 97
- Amount of lines: 66
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; to, and, of, their are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, their, his are repeated.
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