This is an analysis of the poem The Poet's Dead that begins with:

The Poet's dead! - a slave to honor -
He fell, by rumor slandered,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXbXcdefdccXgbhgacX agibjccXbbifb Xbbab kXeXde bllfcgXbgelb gcdheiXfdfbddkjb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,13,5,6,12,16,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 010101010 1111010 1001110101 10011 01011101 101001 01010011 01110011 1010101 010100101 010101010 1101010 101111000 01010101 11110101 010101 110110010 0101010 10001001010 10000101 11000100 11011101 01011100 01010001 1100101 00011101 110001010 010111 01001111 011110011 1111110 10110101 1011101 11110101 11011101 1001001 011101010 1111110101 10110101010101 0100010011001100 0101110010 101101010100 1111011101 11011101010101 110101110101 010101010 0101010 110101 10001010 1101010010100 11111101010 100111101 010101 110101 0101011 010101 11011100 0101110 100101010 01011101 11010101 1001010110 1101010001 1101110011 110101011001 011100011 11000101 11110111 10110101 101101 11111101 010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 536
  • Average number of words per stanza: 88
  • Amount of lines: 74
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; his, of, he, and, you are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, and, his, are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines is repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word hand at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases slain, connect the lines.

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