This is an analysis of the poem Dead that begins with:
There's an empty seat where the old folks meet,
When they offer their evening prayer,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbXdbdedcdeXaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110110111 11101101 1010110111 11110101 1010111001 10110111 1010100101 1110101 1010110101 10100101 1010111001 1011101 1010110011 001010010 10100100101 101010100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 629
- Average number of words per stanza: 115
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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