This is an analysis of the poem Not Theirs The Cypress-Arch that begins with:
Dream not the dead will wait,
Slow-crumbling in the allotted ground,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXbcX XabcbX XXXaXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110101 1100000101 1101011001 1101000111 111100111 100101 010101 01010101 1101111011 1111110011 11010101 010101 110101 01010101 0101011100 1101010101 11111101 1101001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 212
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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