This is an analysis of the poem Requiescat that begins with:
The roses mourn for her who sleeps
Within the tomb;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cccbb XdXd eeedd fgfg hhhgg ijij fffjj ieieXaaaee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,5,4,5,4,5,4,5,10,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01011011 0101 10110101 1101 01010101 11010101 11011101 0101 0101 01010110 0101 10110100 1111 01010111 10010101 11010111 1111 1101 01111101 1101 010010001 0101 11010101 01010101 01011011 1111 1111 01111101 1111 11010101 0111 01011001 10111011 01011011 1101 0111 11111101 01110 01010100 1111 011100011 11010101 11111101 11110 11010
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 125
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 45
- 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; her, and, must are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines bloom, brief, low, gone, flowers are repeated).
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- summary of Requiescat;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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