This is an analysis of the poem A Saxon Epitaph that begins with:
The earth builds on the earth
Castles and towers; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABAB cdcd bebe fgfg hbhb ijijXABAB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011101 10110 011001 1101 111111 01101 110101 1101 110111 101101 111001001 101001 1001110 11111 1111010010 01001 111001 01011 11111001 001000 00100111 10111 1111010001 101001 011101 10110 011001 1101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 111
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; earth, they, of are repeated.
The author used the same word yea at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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