This is an analysis of the poem Nadowessian Death-Lament that begins with:
See, he sitteth on his mat
Sitteth there upright,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaa baba cdcd aeae Xece fdfd ddXd ghgh idid didi dcdX jdjd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110101 10101 0010111 11101 1010101 10101 11101001 010101 1011101 10101 1010111 10101 1011101 10101 1010101 10101 1011100 10101 1011101 10101 1011111 11101 1010111 11001 1011101 10101 10101100 10001 0010111 11101 1110101 10101 1111101 10111 1001101 11111 1010101 11101 1011101 10101 101110 10101 1110101 11100 1010101 10101 1110101 00101
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 113
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; he, where, with are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words where, than, see are repeated.
The author used the same words where, and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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