This is an analysis of the poem A Paean that begins with:
How shall the burial rite be read?
The solemn song be sung? ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab X cdcd X eaea X fXfX g gbXb g haha X idid X bjbj X kdkd X ekek XXjiji
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110100101 010101 0100101001 110111 1 0111010 110101 1110010 110001 1 110101 11100101 1110101 1110111 1 111111 00101001 1110101 1111111 1 111110 101101 11001100 1011111 1 110101 011101 111101 0011011 1 001111 1011 0010101 1010101 1 11010111 110101 10110011 1000100 1 110111 1111111 111111 101111 1 011111 1111110 0100101 01110010 1 110101 1011001 111111 001011
- Amount of stanzas: 21
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 63
- Average number of words per stanza: 13
- Amount of lines: 54
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; her, they, dead, thou, too are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and, that are repeated.
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- history of its creation;
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