This is an analysis of the poem The Burial: In Memory Of W.L.E. that begins with:
What task is this that so unnerves me now?
When pity should be dead, and has been dead....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcXcXdbdbee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 11001110011 1101011101 101101011 1101011101 1101000101 01110101101 1101110111 0111011101 1111001101 1111011101 0101110111 1101010110 1111110111 11011110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 636
- Average number of words per stanza: 126
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; that is repeated.
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