This is an analysis of the poem Necrological that begins with:
The friar had said his paternosters duly
And scourged his limbs, and afterwards would have slept; ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cXca dXdX ecec fXfX Xgbg cccc fbfbXfgfg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 010110100010 11011100111 101100101010 1010010101011 110011010101 0100100101101 11011010011 1001010100 01111100101 10001110111 001010100101 0111110100 11011101100 101111101110 101010110111 1110100111010 01010011110 01010101010 1000111110010 01011001001010 01011000100 101100101101 101010011101 1101011100 1101011101 1011010101 0111110101 1010100111101 01011100101 100100001001 110011011001 1110101010101 11101011101 11001010101 111110011011 1010100100011
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 196
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (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; his, and, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, was are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase gone connects the lines.
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- summary of Necrological;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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