This is an analysis of the poem Warning And Reply that begins with:
In the earth—the earth—thou shalt be laid,
A grey stone standing over thee;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcX edeX fbfX gdgb Xdcb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 001011101 01110101 110111 1110101 11011 1111100 0111101 1011011 11101101 11011100 11111101 01001000 1110101 111101 1110111 111100 111111 111100 1110101 110101 111111 110100 111101 1111101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 126
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; thee is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word thee at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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