This is an analysis of the poem The Shrouding Of The Duchess Of Malfi that begins with:

Hark, now everything is still,
The screech-owl and the whistler shrill, ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccbbddeeccffgg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1110101 01110101 1011101 11010101 1110111 11011100 0110111 1101101 011111110 110101110 1101001010 1101001010 1110101 1110111 1011101 01011111 11111111 1111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 655
  • Average number of words per stanza: 116
  • Amount of lines: 18
  • 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; your, their, of are repeated.

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

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