This is an analysis of the poem The Jewish Cemetery At Newport that begins with:
How strange it seems! These Hebrews in their graves,
Close by the street of this fair seaport town,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd bebe fafa XXdX XgXg bbbb hihi jjjX iaia XhXh ihih hkhk gigiXjbjb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101110011 1101001111 1001010101 1101010111 01110111011 1111000101 1101110111 01010010001 1110011111 11010111001 1101000111 11011010101 0101010111 01011101001 0101010101 0101110011 100011101010 0101101011100 1100010001 1010111011100 1101001101 1101010101 1111010100 0011010101 1101010101 1101010101 10001010101 1111110101 1111110101 1101010011 11001110100 110110011 1101011101 10110001110 1001010001 01010101010 11110010001 1101011101 0101000111 11001010011 01001000101 1101010101 110010100101 1111111101 1101010101 10010110011 1011001101 1101010100 1001110111 01011010101 1101010001 1101000101 1101000101 0101000111 1001010101 1101010001 1111101011 0101001101 1101011101 1011010101
- Amount of stanzas: 15
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 174
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 60
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word no is repeated.
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