This is an analysis of the poem Spirits Of The Dead that begins with:
Thy soul shall find itself alone
'Mid dark thoughts of the grey tomb-stone;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXX babacc aaaaddee ffgg ccaahh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,6,8,4,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110101 11100111 11010101 001100100 01001101 10110011 01000111 01011101 01011110 11010101 011111 1011111 011100010 011101010 1111011 0110011 10101010 11101110 11111110 11101010 0110111 11111001 01010101 1010101 1001001010 00101010 1010101 01000100
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 213
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; of is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words in, now are repeated.
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