This is an analysis of the poem In A Lonesome Burial-Place that begins with:
In a lonesome burial-place
Crouched a mourner white of face; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXbbX ccdaaD eedffD ffdggd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 00101001 1010101 101100 10010111 10101001 110100 1010101 1011101 011110 11001001 1010001 11010 1011101 1011101 1001110 0010111 1011101 11010 1111101 1110101 101110 0010001 11100101 111010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 181
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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.
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