This is an analysis of the poem Written In A Country Churchyard that begins with:

Oh! how I hate the cumbrous pride
Of plume and pall and scutcheon'd hearse,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcacadede fdfdghghaiaijkjklmlm
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,20,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11110101 011111001 11011101 01011101 10010111 01010101 11010111 11010111 11110101 01111101 010101001 10011101 01110111 11011101 11010101 011101001 1101101 11110101 11010101 10110101 11011101 01000111 10010101 011100101 110011111 11111001 11010101 01001000001 11010111 01110101 11010100 110010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 576
  • Average number of words per stanza: 103
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

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  • summary of Written In A Country Churchyard;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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