This is an analysis of the poem The Weed that begins with:
I dreamed that dead, and meditating,
I lay upon a grave, or bed,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdeeccfgdadXbgdXgbfXgbXffXdchdhhgXihggiXdfbhXbahdddgbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 56,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111010 11010111 111111110 00110101 11010111 11101111 110101010 101001110 10011010 110101001 11010101 00101010 0010001 10101001 11110111 11110110 11110101 101001 011110101 11111001 01010111 11110100 01110101 10110101 1001011000 11110111 0101010 01010101 11110101 100101010 11011001 10011001 110111 01100101 10100111 111011101 01111101 010001 100100101 01110111 10111111 10111111 1110101 01010101 01010111 01010100 100101101 011011010 100101110 11010100 01100101 10111010011 010011101 0111 1101101001 1000111100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1972
- Average number of words per stanza: 357
- Amount of lines: 56
- 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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, as are repeated.
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- summary of The Weed;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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