This is an analysis of the poem The Dead Lover that begins with:
Time is so long when a man is dead!
Some one sews; and the room is made... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaa bbbX cbcb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101110101 11110101 10110101 110101 1011111 11010111 010110101 1011111 000111111 0101011001 10101001001 1101101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 143
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- 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, to, of are repeated.
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