This is an analysis of the poem Dan's Epitaph that begins with:
Dan, he's dead, as I used to know
In the ol' ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXabbccddee afXaFXFg gaahhgXXee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,8,10,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111101 001 100 001 100100111 111110111 111100111 1111001011 1110111111 0101101011 010100101 1111100111 111111101 00 100 101 10 111 10 111 1110101110 11010111 101111011 111111101 111111111 1111101101 111100111 1111111101 111111111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 289
- Average number of words per stanza: 59
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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; nor, no, 'e, 'is, an' are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words nor, 'e are repeated.
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