This is an analysis of the poem Elizabeth Gone that begins with:
1.
You lay in the nest of your real death,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X abcadce aecafce X bfdbXde beXbbaf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,7,7,1,7,7,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 110010111 0101011010 1111101 111100111 110111111 11110100101 11111111111 110010111 101111001 1110111 0110100100 111001010 101000101 101111111 1 111111101 1001100111 10011111011 11010001001 1110100100010 100110011 1101111111 111111101 111110101 11010101 0110101 011111011 1011110100 010001101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 184
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; you, your, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words rattling, of are repeated.
The author used the same word you at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word go at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase elizabeth connects the lines.
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