This is an analysis of the poem The Valley Of Dry Bones that begins with:

With crow bones all the land is white,
From the gates of morn to the gates of night.... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccccaaddbbeeffggbbffhhXX Xbbee
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 28,5,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 01110101 0010100101 1111101001 101010101 11101101111 1101100111 0101001001 11011011011 011111111 0100101101 1110100101 1010010111 1100110101 0010100101 110001011 001111001011 00100101111 1101101001 11110100101 11101110011 1111111111 1111111101 1101100101 10100100101 10101101101 010110101 1010100111 0010010111 11100000101 1100110101 111101111001 111011001011
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 680
  • Average number of words per stanza: 128
  • Amount of lines: 33
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, i are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, they are repeated.

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