This is an analysis of the poem The Grave Of Shelley that begins with:
LIKE burnt-out torches by a sick man's bed
Gaunt cypress-trees stand round the sun-bleached stone;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaaaaa cdcdcd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1111010111 1101110111 1101011101 10110101001 11010010101 0011001100 1011111101 1100010001 1101010101 0111000101 1101110101 00110011001 1101110001 0101011101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 377
- Average number of words per stanza: 57
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 54 (very long strings)
- 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; of is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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