This is an analysis of the poem Kaiser Dead that begins with:
What, Kaiser dead? The heavy news
Post-haste to Cobham calls the Muse, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaabab cccXcd eeefef bbbgbg hhhchX dddidi eeeaea dddjdj cccgcg dXXedX eeXgeg dXdkdk cccXcj eeelel
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101 11010101 01010011 0101 10111101 0101 11011101 01010101 11111111 1110 11010101 0101 10011111 01010101 10110111 0101 11110001 0101 01010101 01010111 11011101 110010 1111001001 11010 11010101 01010101 01010001 0101 01110101 1110 11110101 010011111 01011101 1111 01010111 0111 11110101 011101001 11010111 11010 11010111 01010 11111111 110100101 10010111 0111 11111111 1101 11110101 10010101 11011101 11010 01110101 01010 11011101 010001100 1101001110 01001 10111101 11010 11111101 11110111 01111110 01110 11111111 11110 110111001 01010110 11110101 1101 11010101 0101 11011101 11011101 11011101 0101 10010101 11001 11010101 11011101 11011101 1011 10110111 1011
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 183
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 84
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; and, thy are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and are repeated.
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