This is an analysis of the poem In Beechwood Cemetery that begins with:

Here the dead sleep--the quiet dead. No sound
Disturbs them ever, and no storm dismays.... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcacacdXXXd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 1011010111 0101011101 10110100101 1011010111 1111011101 0111110111 1011110101 1010010101 1100001111 0011001111 10001101101 0111011111 1001010100 1111010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 618
  • Average number of words per stanza: 110
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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 is repeated.

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