This is an analysis of the poem When Underneath The Brown Dead Grass that begins with:

When underneath the brown dead grass
My weary bones are laid,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdefefbXbX cfcfagag hchcdddd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11010111 110111 11111101 110001 11011111 010111 11111101 100101 01110111 111001 111010111 011101 11010001 011101 11010101 110101 11000101 0100101 11010101 010111 11000101 010101 10011101 111101 11111111 111111 10110001 11101 11010101 111101 11010101 010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 309
  • Average number of words per stanza: 62
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, to are repeated.

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