This is an analysis of the poem To One Dead 1 that begins with:
Shaking nights, noons tame and dust-quiet, and wind-broken days
Were hands modelling your face....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXX aaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10111111011101 0110011 110111111 111101 1010101101 110111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 115
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 6
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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 is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines you is repeated).
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- summary of To One Dead 1;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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