This is an analysis of the poem The Letters Of The Dead that begins with:
A letter came from Dick to-day;
A greeting glad he sends to me. ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaaaX bcbbcc dXddee fgffgg hahhaa ifiiff ffffff gXggaa djddjj fcffcc fhffhh kdkkdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 01010101 01011101 11011101 01011101 11111101 01111000 11110111 10111101 11100101 11010101 11011111 11010101 11110111 11010001 11111111 01100101 11010101 11111111 11111101 11110101 11111101 11010101 11010101 101110111 11110101 11111111 01111101 01010111 11011101 01111101 11110111 01010111 11100101 11111111 00000101 01010101 11111101 11010101 11010111 11010101 00011111 11001101 11110111 01010101 01110001 11111101 11010101 10010101 11010001 11011001 01011101 11110111 11011111 01110001 10111101 01000101 11010101 11010101 11011101 11010101 010100101 11010101 01110101 11110101 11110101 11010101 11111111 11110111 11110101 11010111 01010101 01010001
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 213
- Average number of words per stanza: 41
- Amount of lines: 72
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- 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; and, our are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, he, the are repeated.
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