This is an analysis of the poem The Graves Of A Household that begins with:
They grew in beauty, side by side,
They fill'd one home with glee;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd caca efef Xece gaga abab hihi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11010111 111101 11110111 111111 01110111 1011101 111101001 111101 11010001 101101 010010101 100101 01011111 111111 11010111 1001111 11110111 010101 11010101 1011101 1110001010 011111 110101010 010111 11011111 010111 11010111 011101 11011101 110101 01110111 110111
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 131
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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 they, he are 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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