This is an analysis of the poem Came To My Side that begins with:
Came to my side one whom I mourned as Dead,
In the lone night watch- and about his brow... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1011111111 0011110101 1101111111 11010110111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 190
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 4
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i is repeated.
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