This is an analysis of the poem I Felt A Funeral, In My Brain (280) that begins with:

I felt a Funeral, in my Brain,
And Mourners to and fro... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcb cdXd efaf fgeg XaXa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110100011 110011 11010101 111101 1111010 010101 11010111 111101 11110101 110111 01110101 110101 11010001 110111 11110111 110101 11010101 111111 110111001 110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 123
  • Average number of words per stanza: 23
  • Amount of lines: 20
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • 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 word and is repeated.

    The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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