This is an analysis of the poem George Rolleston that begins with:
Dead art thou? No more dead than was the maid
Over whose couch the saving God did stand-...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaa Xaaa bcbc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111111101 1011010101 10111101 110101 11010011110 11001111101 11110101 111001 1101111101 1111111101 11110101 101101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 159
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; dead is repeated.
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