This is an analysis of the poem A Dirge Of Joy that begins with:
Oh! this is a joyful dirge, my friends, and this is a hymn of praise;
And this is a clamour of Victory, and a pæan of Ancient Days.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddee ffgg ccbb hhaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1000101111000101 10001001001010101 01010010110100101 1110011011110100101 10100011110101001 101111111011111001 111101001011111111 101000010110101001 111101001111110101 11001011011111111 111101001011011101 101001111100110111 1110010010111110111 0010011010011100111 11110100111111101001 11011011011100111 111010100111001001 1110100100111011001 11011011011101001001 11001101001011011011 101101001001001001011 10100110100111101001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 412
- Average number of words per stanza: 85
- Amount of lines: 22
- Average number of symbols per line: 74 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 16
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, this, my, on, i, dance, grave are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word oh at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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