This is an analysis of the poem The Dead that begins with:
How great unto the living seem the dead!
How sacred, solemn; how heroic grown;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abababcdcdddXd
- 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: 1110010101 1101010101 11111110001 01001100101 1111010111 1101010101 10101011101 0100010101 1111000101 1010011101 1111010101 1111000111 11010011100 1101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 573
- Average number of words per stanza: 103
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; how, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word how is repeated.
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- summary of The Dead;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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