This is an analysis of the poem The Poet Orders His Tomb that begins with:
I summon up Panofskv from his bed
Among the famous dead ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaa Xbbb cdcX eXee fXff dcdd gggg hhhh iiii
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 110110001 010101 0101111111 1001010001 1101010000 0101001 1101000100 0101010101 10111111110 110101 0100010100 01011000000 1110010101 110100 1010110001 0110000101 1001010011 010101 0111110011 1101110101 1100110101 010100 11011010101 0101010001 1111011101 011101 11000010101 1000010101 1111110001 1011001 0111010011 110111101110 1111010101 110101 1001110101 0101011111
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 145
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; their is repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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