This is an analysis of the poem Come Out, Come Out that begins with:

Come out, come out, ye souls that serve, why will ye die?
or will ye sit and stifle in your prison-homes ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXcbdXXbXXXbcXXadX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 19,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 111111111011 101111001101 100110110101 101010100011001 1101111001001 10111001111101 1000111011101 0011011100110 111110010111111 10110011100101 101111100111011 1011111100101 10101110100101 11100101010100011 1011011110001111 111101011101 00110110110101001 11010011011001 101000110101001
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1171
  • Average number of words per stanza: 234
  • Amount of lines: 19
  • Average number of symbols per line: 61 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 12
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; ye, in, of, that, all, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word for is repeated.

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