This is an analysis of the poem On An Old Sepuchral Bas-Relief that begins with:
WHERE IS SEEN A YOUNG MAIDEN, DEAD, IN THE ACT OF DEPARTING,
TAKING LEAVE OF HER FAMILY....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ab cddeffdf ghhhhhhhch Xgihhhidb jjckhclXmhffjjhnn hcnnacadbff ofiXhhhndbkgkmihmmiX bnnpcppdobhhiihflhnfnnnXgigheebbenn
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,8,10,9,17,11,20,35,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 101011010010010 10100100 11111 10111101 110101 010100111 110111 11100111001 111111 11111101 1011110011 111111 0101010001 0111000101 01110001 0111110001 1101010111 1101011101 01010110101 0101010101 11101101 01011001 1101110111 0100110101 1101 010111001 1111001101 1001111111 1101011100 10110110101 111110101 1101010101 010111 110100101 010101 1100100010 11110101 0101010101 1101000101 1100010101 0101101110 1001010101 10110001 010101 11010011 0101010101 11010101 01110111 10100100 1101110001 0101001101 1111001 111101 0011 01110100 0111011101 1111010101 1010011 010111 1100101 10111101 11001101 0100100101 1101110101 10010001 10010001 1101010100 11010101 110111 01010101 11110101 11110101 110011001 110101 110111 1101010101 11010101 0101000100 11100111 1101110110 11010101 110111 01110001 11110111 100100 111101 11000100 1101011101 1111 01001010111 111101 001101 11010111 0101000 01110011 110011 0101010101 11011101 11010101101 01010101 1101111101 00110101 01000101 010001 010001 1101010101 1100100 011100 11010111001 1100010101 1101101011
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 432
- Average number of words per stanza: 79
- Amount of lines: 112
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- 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; to, why, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words wilt, if, and, the are repeated.
The author used the same word where at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines time is repeated).
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