This is an analysis of the poem Beside The Dead that begins with:
It must be sweet, O thou, my dead, to lie
With hands that folded are from every task, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXabccbbbbbbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 0101111101 01110101001 1001001100 0111010101 0111010101 0100010101 1011010101 11001110001 0101010101 01011011111 1011010101 1111011101 11010110111 0101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 641
- Average number of words per stanza: 115
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; of, all are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase past connects the lines.
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