This is an analysis of the poem Service Of All The Dead that begins with:
Between the avenues of cypresses,
All in their scarlet cloaks, and surplices ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXa bbbb aaXa XXaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0101010100 1011011100 0101010100 0101110100 110101001010 0111011100 1110100101100 110100110100 11010010101 01011010101 11010010101 0111110111 0100010100 0101010100 0100010100 0101010100
- 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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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