This is an analysis of the poem In Tintagel Graveyard that begins with:
Who brought flowers to this grave?
I, said the wren....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbc cded fbb fcbX aG XXcXGee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,4,2,7,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110001 1101 1101111 101 1101111 110010111 110100101 100101 1101101 10101 11111001 1111 1011101 1100001100101 11010 111 011110 0010011 0010011 00100101101 011110 101010101 1101111101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 103
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 23
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, help, of, with are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, they, with are repeated.
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- summary of In Tintagel Graveyard;
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