This is an analysis of the poem Melville And Coghill - The Place Of The Little Hand that begins with:

DEAD, with their eyes to the foe,
Dead, with the foe at their feet; ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababXab cdcdcd efefef
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,6,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1011001 1001111 100111 1011001 10100100 111 101101001 111101 111111 111111 101101 1101101001 1101001 1011011 1011101 1001001 1001101 1111101000 101101
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 217
  • Average number of words per stanza: 41
  • Amount of lines: 19
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; their is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words dead, nor are repeated.

    The author used the same word dead at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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