This is an analysis of the poem Veterans' Cemetery that begins with:
The ceremonies of the day have ceased,
Abandoned to the ragged crow's parade....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab acac Xdad aXaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0101000111 0100010101 010100010101 0101100111 1100110101 1111110111 0101100101 1111011100 01010000101 11010111010 11001010101 11010101010 0101010101 11010001011 1111010101 11111101010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 170
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of Veterans' Cemetery;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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