This is an analysis of the poem To One Dead that begins with:
A blackbird singing
On a moss-upholstered stone, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbAbcded AcAcXXed
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010 1010101 1110 11101 01001 01101 01111 101111 01010 1101101 1110 1100101 110110 101100 01011 101011
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 187
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of To One Dead;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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