This is an analysis of the poem The Dead Coach that begins with:
At night when sick folk wakeful lie,
I heard the dead coach passing by,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb bbbb ccdd bbdd eeff gggg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111001 11011101 11010111 11111111 11110111 11011101 11011011 01111101 01110101 01110111 01110101 11011101 11000111 01011111 11111101 01011111 11110011 11011101 01010101 11010001 111101001 01110101 11010011 11010111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 148
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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