This is an analysis of the poem A Departing Dirge that begins with:
Girls in town and boys out back,
I've rolled up my little pack,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcX ddeedX ffgghh ddcXddX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,7,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011111 1111101 1111101 1010111 11101001 01010111 1011101 1110101 101011 1001101 11001010 10111110 1010101 10111001 0110111 01011101 1110101 11010111 01111111 1010111 1010011 11111111 1010111 01001101 11100
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 195
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; old is repeated.
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