This is an analysis of the poem Death Alone that begins with:
There are lone cemeteries,
tombs full of soundless bones,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbXcb acadXae abaaXdfgg dhXcdi ifgeeXh jdjddXafafhb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,9,6,7,12,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111010 110101 0110010 01110 1011100101 1010101 1010100101 1110 10111 101001 1011 010101 10101101 1000010010111 1110111 10101 1010011100111 1011110 101100100 10010010010001 01110001 0111000101 10010101 10101 101001010101010 1010011001100 1010101010101 10010111 101101101 1111111001101 10101101101001100 10011001 1010101 101011 0011000101 1011000101010 1110101101001 100101001 10001 00010110101 0100110101 11011 00101000110 1011111001 110110101 11111000010 11010111100
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 253
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 47
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; dead, with, death, without, i, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word comes is repeated.
The author used the same word there at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines tunnel, death, green are repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases death, violets, blows connect the lines.
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