This is an analysis of the poem At Melville's Tomb that begins with:
Often beneath the wave, wide from this ledge
The dice of drowned men's bones he saw bequeath... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXa bXXb Xabb XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1001011001 0101111101 1100110111 1101011001 11101101 0100110101 0101010101 0101010001 1001010111 0101110101 1011011010 1101010101 101011001 1101100101 1001110100 01001110011
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 169
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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; of is repeated.
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