This is an analysis of the poem Little Nell's Funeral that begins with:
And now the bell, - the bell
She had so often heard by night and day ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaXab cXdXcXefgeXhXij ggdfijXb Xfjghfhf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,15,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 110101 1111011111 110001010 1010101 10010110 11110010 010111001 1101110100 1111000101 110011 01001101 0101011101 1101 11010 10011111001 1101010101 010 0101010111 0101000101 11010110 01111111010 0101011101 1101101 11001111 10110 10111111110 0101001101 11011011 01000101 11000111 1111011001110 11110101010 011101 01010010101 0101010 00101101 110111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 346
- Average number of words per stanza: 63
- Amount of lines: 37
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; and, so, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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