This is an analysis of the poem Raising The Dead that begins with:

We all have heard, and marvelled as we heard,
Of seers, who have raised the Dead from out their tombs,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXcdeacfgh febbeeijcacbXklcb bceammmalenoaXpgn qceecmhdarmacnbmo occemanjemqaedbq XspbbqabqlihahpmX hamnaqhmmasehmeg nbnmbbcXlqqhqaeatg naopklmepeamXqni bbambcchnqajmca nbbaXekcbkaiXbcs qalbkmmoemamlmhcbm sncoqlceplocrbXanb kmemqhbebmceXedpa aihoebbcbmXa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,17,17,17,16,17,16,18,16,15,16,18,18,17,15,16,15,15,17,19,17,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 11111100111 01111010111 1101011111 110111001001 01001000101 1101011101 1001110101 01100111101 10110010101 11011011011 1011011101 0011010101 1101 111101 1100011101 0100110111 01011110111 1011111111 01001101010 0101110101 11001000101 11011111011 1111101101 1101011100 11000110101 1111110101 110101001010 0100101101 11010101010 0011101100 01111111101 11111 110101 0101010101 0111001101 0110010111 0111110101 1111110111 1101010101 1011110011 1011010101 0101111110 1111010101 11001110101 0111110001 11011111010 11001100111 0111110101 0111111101 1101110101 1101110101 1101110100 1111010101 0011111111 01011100010 1001110101 1101000111 1100111011 0101010111 01011100100 0100110111 1111111111 0111111101 1111111101 0110110111 10101101011 0101011101 1101010111 1101010101 01111101010 1101001101 1101001001 110111100110 1111010100 11011111110 0101000101 1011011111 0110011110 1111111111 01010010001 11111101111 1111011101 1011110111 01110101010 1001110111 1101011111 101100101110 1001110111 0011111101 101010111010 110010101011 11110101010 01010101111 0111010100 10010111000 1111001101 10110101111 10011111010 110111 1111 0111111100 010110011011 1001111001 1101010101 11001101001 1101100001 111101101 11001000111 1111011101 11001011011 11011111001 0101111101 01011111010 01010110101 1011111101 1111110100 1111111011 11110111100 011111001000 1110000101 10110011110 001111010010 0111010101 10010011100 0011010101 0100010111 0110110101 01010101010 1001010101 0101010101 1101010111 1101010011 11001111101 11100001001 1111001101 1011110101 11001011101 11010101011 0111111011 1101101101 1011011100 111101011010 11111111010 110011100011 1101111101 1101011101 01000010101 0101011011 0100010 111 1101111111 11011 11101 1111011011 11110101010 0111010101 00110011010 10111010101 110100111101 0101010111 111110101 1101110100 11011101010 0011011101 0111111101 11011001101 1111011101 0101110111 11011101000 1101010101 0101100111 0111110101 111100111010 10111011101 11001111111 10010 111110 010100101110 00111111111 1111010101 0101010111 1001001101 1011000101 1101010101 11110000101 0101110001 1111110111 1001011101 1101011001 1101011101 1111011111 11011010101 1001111101 1101110111 11011100111 1101111111 1011011101 0111111001 01111111110 111110011010 01100001101 111111101 1101110111 11000111110 1010001111 1101110100 10110001100 1110101001010 110101000010 1101010001 0111010101 1111110111 1101111111 01111101011 11110100001 1101110001 101101110010 0101010111 010101110100 1111110111 1111111100 11101100010 11101010101 000101110001 11001111100 11110110110 1011 111101 1111011111 1111111101 111110011111 1001000100 10001110111 110111 11110 0111101110 1011101101 11110111111 11011101001 11011111011 1111111101 0111010101 01010011110 01011111110 0111010101 11111111110 0100010101 1000110101 0101111111 11100001111 1111111111 1100010100 11111111010 11110100110 1101010001 11100101101 1110110111 101101011001 01110100101 11111101111 10011101111 101101011001 11010100010 1111111011 11001111010 1101011101 1111010101 11110001011 101100101010 001001110010 1101010001 11010000101 01111111010 1101111001 1111110101 1101111101 1111011011 1101110101 11111100101 1101010101 0111110111 01001010101 1101101111 11110110111 1111011101 10110101111 101101001111 1001010101 1101001101 111111001111 1111111100 110111000 1010001111 0011010001 110011010010 11111101010 110100111011 110011011 1011101110 11010111001 1101110101 001010110 1110 01010000101 1101010101 01111101111 11000110111 1101101111 0101010111 10011100100 1101010001 101101111010 1111101101 1100101010010 1100010101 110111011010 0111010101 1111010100 0101010011 01010100111 0101111111 01010101111 11001101001 10010111110 1001010101 11110010101 0111110101 10111111001 1111010100 1011101101 1110111101 11000101001 1110101010 1001011111 11010101010 1101110011 1101010011 01110111010 0111010001 1101110101 0100110101 11001010101 0101011111
  • Amount of stanzas: 21
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 707
  • Average number of words per stanza: 130
  • Amount of lines: 343
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; life, or, us, and, of, but, we, he, i, to, it, more, they, not, that, power, him, eyes are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words from, and, or, of, familiar, to, that, now are repeated.

    The author used the same word and 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 visions, these, not, him are repeated).

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