This is an analysis of the poem The Cathedral Tombs that begins with:
THEY lie, with upraised hands, and feet
Stretched like dead feet that walk no more, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcd efefee gfgfbb hfhfaa eeeecd ififee ejejbX ehehaX gfggXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 110100111 11111111 11011101 10010111 01010111 01111100 110011001 01101111 100000111 10010100 110010101 01110111 10010101 10101101 11011111 01010111 01111111 01010101 11101111 11011111 11011101 11010101 11010110 01111101 01111101 01000101 01110101 11110001 11111111 01100100 11111101 11010111 11101111 10110111 11111111 110111001 10111111 01011101 010101101 011010001 01011101 1100111110 11011101 010010101 11010101 01010001 11000101 01010101 111101111 01011101 11110111 01010101 11011100 11101101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 215
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 54
- 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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words after, would, in are repeated.
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- summary of The Cathedral Tombs;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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