This is an analysis of the poem The Dance Of Death that begins with:
THE warder looks down at the mid hour of night,
On the tombs that lie scatter'd below:...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cXX dede ffg eheh ffX cccc gga ifif iii bjbj ccX iaia ggX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,3,4,3,4,3,4,3,4,3,4,3,4,3,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 010111011001 101111001 01101001001 101111101 111111010101 11011101110 010011110 01101111011 11101011 01101101101 101001011 111001001011 11011101101 1010010010 11001111001 101011001 101011010101 101101001 01001011001 101001011001 10100111100 111011111011 01011011 01101001101 101111001 101011101111 111111011001 110011010 11001011011 110101001 11111111011 01111001 111001101011 111111001001 110010010 01111111001 101101011 101001001101 1011011001 01101001001 101101001101 010010010 01011101011 01001111 101111001101 001101001 01001001101 101101001001 1010011010
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 155
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 49
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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, they are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words in, and, the are repeated.
The author used the same word but at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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