This is an analysis of the poem The Mourners that begins with:
LOW she lies, who blest our eyes
Through many a sunny day; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcD cbebfdfD XcdcgdgD XhXhidiDXefefcdcd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,17,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111111 1100101 11111011 011101 110010101 1110111 101011101 1100111 01011101 01100111 11111111 111101 1111010101 1011111 1101101111 1100111 01011101 110101 111000101 1010101 010011111 1010111 111111111 1100111 01110111 1110111 010000101 1010101 11111101 0011101 101111111 1100111 11010101 000101 1111011101 011101 10100100101 1111111 1110100101 1100111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 289
- Average number of words per stanza: 54
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; she, that, we are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word weep at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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