This is an analysis of the poem The Bier Of Precentor A. Reitan that begins with:

With smiles his soft eyes ever gleamed,
When God and country thinking;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababbbbb bcbXcccX dbdbdddb Xebebbbe cfcfcccf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01011101 1111010 01010101 1101110 0101 10111 11010101 1101110 11011101 0101010 011101111 0101010 1101 0101 11010101 1111110 01010101 1101010 11010101 0101010 1101 1111 111010111 0101110 010111100 0101010 11110101 1111010 0111 0101 01000111 0111010 11011101 0100010 11100111 1101110 01001 1101 00111101 0101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 236
  • Average number of words per stanza: 42
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines song is repeated).

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