This is an analysis of the poem A Grave that begins with:

Though life should come
With all its marshalled honours, trump and drum,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaabbccdedE fbgfbgeE bhfhfbfeeee fifffXifjjeeE
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,8,11,13,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111 0101010111 0101010001 01011111 1100010101 1001001101 1110001101 111100 1111 110011 110101 1011010001 0101101101 01001001101 1011010001 0111 11010100001 1111001101 110101 1100010101 01011010 1001110001 0101010 010011111 0111110001 011101 110111 101111 110111 1111110101 1100111111 011100 1101110011 110101 0111010111 1100111 11110010100 010101 001101 110101 01110010101 1111110101 110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 377
  • Average number of words per stanza: 67
  • Amount of lines: 43
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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