This is an analysis of the poem Geist's Grave that begins with:
Four years!--and didst thou stay above
The ground, which hides thee now, but four?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd eded fcfc gfgf hihi jbjb jbjb kfkf jdjd hkhk dbdb ckck bibi bfbf idid lili bgbg hfhfXkgkg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 10111101 01111111 11111111 01010011 10101101 11111101 11011101 110111001 11011101 11011101 01111111 11110001 11010101 010101101 11001001 01010101 11110101 11010001 11000101 11101111 11011101 010100101 11010010 01000101 01000101 01010101 11010101 11110101 110100101 11111101 11011111 01011111 111111001 11110101 01110111 11011101 11111011 111100101 11110001 10101110 11111101 11110101 10110101 11111111 11111101 11101101 11110101 11110101 11010111 11011111 10010101 11110101 10110111 11101101 11110101 11010101 110011111 11111111 11011111 01110101 11010111 100010111 11010111 11011101 11110111 11010111 01010101 11111101 01110111 010010101 111111001 10011101 11110101 11111011 11110101 11010111 10111101 01010101 01110101 01111101
- Amount of stanzas: 20
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 142
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 80
- 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; and, their, such, we, thy are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words of, and, we are repeated.
The author used the same words that, we at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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