This is an analysis of the poem Sepulchre that begins with:
O blessed body! Whither are thou thrown?
No lodging for thee, but a cold hard stone? ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaabcccbdddebbedddbaaab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 23,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111010111 1101110111 1101111111 011 1101011101 1111010101 1001111101 111 1111011001 1101001101 1111110100 010 111111110011 11001100011 110 1101011101 1101111101 0100011111 011 1111011101 1111011101 1001110101 101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 862
- Average number of words per stanza: 161
- Amount of lines: 23
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
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 word and is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines thee, art are repeated).
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- summary of Sepulchre;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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