This is an analysis of the poem Dirge Without Music that begins with:
I am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground.
So it is, and so it will be, for so it has been, time out of mind:...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaa bcbc dXacedaXeaea
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,12,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1110100100101010011 10011000110101101 00010110110101 010101011111101 10110000101 010010001001 01001110111 01000110000101 01011101010100 100 1111110101010011 0010100010111111 01 1101010111101000 1 11100010001 1011010001001 100110010001001 11111101111101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 239
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 19
- Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; it, and, so, you, down are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word a is repeated.
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- summary of Dirge Without Music;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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