This is an analysis of the poem Meditations In A Cemetery that begins with:
DEATH,
Grandiosely hackneyed subject,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdXeXfghXegXXXgbhhgibdfbibabbXagffcfXffXfffffcdXfecffagbbggg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 62,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 10001001 1100111001 10010001010 010100101100 11001110 101001 111001 011000001 11110101 0101110100 0111011101 1101010 1110011 10010101 011110111100 1010000111 111110100 100010100 1101000111 11001111 11011010 11011001 01011110 010010010 11010010 1101010 111010 1101011 0101101 1101101001 1101011 0110111 101010011 01111010 01001010 00101 0010100010 11000100100 101010011 11111101 01010110 1101001 1000010001 1100010 101001101 011101010 010101001 1110101010 0111001 010010101 011010011 1000101 101000101 01110001 11111011 111101101 11101010 0011011010 0111110 010111101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1007
- Average number of words per stanza: 173
- Amount of lines: 61
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- 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, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and, leaving are repeated.
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