This is an analysis of the poem My Lady's Grave that begins with:
THE linnet in the rocky dells,
The moor-lark in the air, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xaba cdcd efef gbgb hghg ijijXdbdb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01000101 011001 01010101 111101 01110101 011111 11010101 110101 111101011 010101 11111101 010101 11010111 011100 11011101 111111 11011101 1100101 01000101 011101 10111111 110101 11100101 010101 11110101 110101 10110101 011101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 137
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 28
- 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; her is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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