This is an analysis of the poem Burying Friends that begins with:
BURYING friends is not a pomp,
Not, indeed, Roman: ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabaXcXcXXaaXbcbXXXXaXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10010101 10110 100100 0101 1001010100 0101010111 101101010 1011101001 01010101 1011 1011 1111 0101000111 11011011 110110110010 1010100111001 100110100 001001 10110 00110 11010101010 01000100101 1111001101 11001111100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 780
- Average number of words per stanza: 132
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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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