This is an analysis of the poem When The Grass Shall Cover Me that begins with:
When the grass shall cover me,
Head to foot where I am lying; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbccbdXXA AebbedccA AfggfXcXA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011101 10111110 1110111 1011101 10110110 1011111 10111111 10111111 1011101 1011101 10101110 1111111 1011101 10101110 1110100 1010011 1111111 1011101 1011101 10100110 1010111 1011111 10101010 1110110 1111111 1111111 1011101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 284
- Average number of words per stanza: 54
- Amount of lines: 27
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, me are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words you, when, now are repeated.
The author used the same word when at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ', me are repeated).
The poet repeated the same word me at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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