This is an analysis of the poem Sudden Death that begins with:
Where are ye, spirits of the dead?
That erst with us held converse kind?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaa abab cdcd efef gbgb haha ebeb ihih ajaj jkjk bhbX kbkb jdjd Xhdh hjhjXiaia
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11110001 11011101 110111111 101100101 11010111 111111001 11110101 01010101 010010101 11011111 01010101 110010111 111100101 010010011 11010101 11101101 11011101 11111101 11111111 01010011 11010111 01110111 11010101 010100111 11001101 11011101 111101110 101100111 11010111 00110101 11011111 01010101 11000101 01010101 11011101 01110101 11111101 010100111 11110101 11110101 11011101 01010111 11011111 01011111 01011101 01010101 11011111 01001111 01110011 11011101 01001101 01011101 11111101 11110011 11000111 11101111 01010101 11110101 11111111 11110111 10110101 01010111 11110101 01010101
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 144
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 64
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; we, you, what, your are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words we, the, there, and are repeated.
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