This is an analysis of the poem Our Dead Singer that begins with:
H. W. L.
PRIDE of the sister realm so long our own,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X aaaaaaaXbbbbbb bccbbcXbdaadda effeeffeaggaag
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,14,14,14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11001 1001011111 1100110101 1101110101 11111101001 11011100111 1010010101 10001010101 11110101100 1111010101 0101010101 1001011111 1111000101 1011100101 11110101001 1001110101 01010010101 0101000101 0111111111 11110101001 1111010101 10111100110 0111011101 1101110101 1101110101 11010001001 1101000101 11001111101 0101010101 110010101010 11010101011 11010011101 1101001010010 11111111010 1101111101 01001110111 01100111010 100010000101 0101011001 1111010111 11110100101 01001011101 0111011101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 480
- Average number of words per stanza: 85
- Amount of lines: 43
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; her is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word no is repeated.
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