This is an analysis of the poem The Poets Of The Tomb that begins with:

The world has had enough of bards who wish that they were dead,
'Tis time the people passed a law to knock 'em on the head, ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbcc ddddcc eeaacc ffggggXddffcc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,13,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 01110101111101 11010101010101 11010011110111 110111010110001 11111101110111 11011100010001 11110101110111 11010101010101 10011101110101 11110101111101 11010101110111 111101000010001 11011101011101 10110101110101 11100101110111 11010101010101 1111111110101 01110100010001 11011101010001 11011101110111 10110101111111 01110101100111 11111101111101 11010101111101 11010101111101 11110001110111 11010111110101 11010110011101 11111100110101 11011111110001
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 371
  • Average number of words per stanza: 72
  • Amount of lines: 30
  • Average number of symbols per line: 61 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 12
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, they, that, some, i are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words they, and are repeated.

    The poet repeated the same word tomb at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of The Poets Of The Tomb;
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  • history of its creation;
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