This is an analysis of the poem Buried To-Day that begins with:
February 23, 1858.
BURIED to-day. ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X abbaa accaa addXa aeeXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101011 1001 101111101 111011101 01011111 00101101 1001 10011101 011111101 111110101 000110011 1001 10101110 10101101 110101111 101101 1001 010100111 010110101 011101110 111111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 131
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; of is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words all, another are repeated.
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