This is an analysis of the poem To A Dead Lover that begins with:
The dark is thrown
Back from the brightness, like hair ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXba bcaaa deaXed bbafbfaXabbacb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,5,6,14,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101 1001011 110010 1101 1010 101101 111110 0101111010 101011011110 011011101 101101111 0110110 101001 10111 1011 1111010 1110 11100101 111101 110 101011 11001 11010110 1111010 1010010 11111110 01111 011010
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 154
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
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 to is repeated.
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