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

Today I had a burial of my dead.
There was no shroud, no coffin, and no pall, ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd aeae fgfg ebeb ccccXagag
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 01110100011 1111110111 1101011101 1101010001 0101110111 1010010011 0101010101 0111010011 11001110101 1111000101 1001001101 1111010011 1101011111 11001111111 0101110001 1011110100 0111110111 1110110011 0101010111 1101010101 0101110101 1101000111 1101110101 0111010011 0101010111 1101110001 1101110101 1111110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 166
  • Average number of words per stanza: 32
  • Amount of lines: 28
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; no, of, my are repeated.

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