This is an analysis of the poem To -- -- --. Ulalume: A Ballad that begins with:

The skies they were ashen and sober;
The leaves they were crisped and sere-... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbababab cddcddXdXd abbabbabab XeeXefefe eggegeggegeg affaXafaff hffhffhXhXX aiiXiiaXXX abbabbbbbabaX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,10,10,9,12,10,11,10,13,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 011010110 01101011 011010011 0110010010 011101001 0111011010 001011001 0111011010 001101101 111110010 01011011 01001011 1011111010 10101011 101011001 110010110 001001001 111111110 00100101 1110100110 111101011 1100010011 1111011010 111101001 11011001 1101011010 11111011 0101011010 101101101 111011100 11101001 101101001 1010110100 11001011 1010010010 01001001 100100010 01001001 1111010110 11111001 110001001 1111011111 11101101 1111010010 01101001 00101001 110010010 01110011 111010010 01001001 110110010 11001101 01011001 110111110 11111111 010111010 10111001 010011010 1111001 1110001001 1011010110 111101001 111001011 010010010 01101001 1010101101 1110110010 101001110 110110010 11011110 10101010101 1110110110 11001001 11001011 1110010010 101101001 101001001 1111010110 101001001 101100100 1010111000 1110110110 101101011 1011010011 1111110010 10101011 111011011 111011011 101011001 111011011 1111011010 01011001 1111011010 01101101
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 471
  • Average number of words per stanza: 75
  • Amount of lines: 94
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; they, and, of, to, oh, in, trailed, dust, her, i, this are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, of, as, and, she, to, oh, let, that are repeated.

    The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines sere, soul, roll, year, morn, sighs, skies, mistrust, dust, light, night, gloom, tomb, here are repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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