This is an analysis of the poem The Dead that begins with:
Their reward is
they become innocent again,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ab cda bec af dXe g Xh ieb eaa cXc hX f ejg XjhXi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,3,3,2,3,1,2,3,3,3,2,1,3,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010 10110001 1111010100 1101001 0110010011 11111101 110111001100 10110101100 001000010 010011111 00101011110111 10111001 0101001110 1101 1010101010 00101 110001011 11011110 111010 10100110 1010 101111 1001010100 1111001 10010111010 10011110 11101111 001011011 111010 1111011001001 00110111 110100101 100111001 100110111 110110011100
- Amount of stanzas: 15
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 80
- Average number of words per stanza: 14
- Amount of lines: 35
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; her, i, see 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.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of The Dead;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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