This is an analysis of the poem The Funerall that begins with:
Who ever comes to shroud me, do not harme
Nor question much... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXabcXcbdbdXece efXfghgh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101011111 1101 1101011111 0100011111 101101 100111010101 010010 11110010001010 1001011111 11001 1111111101 11011011111 100101 11010011111 101111 1100111001100101 11111010001 1111 110011100 00010111001 100100 00100110111 101100 11111101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 463
- Average number of words per stanza: 85
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, and are repeated.
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- summary of The Funerall;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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