This is an analysis of the poem The Dead Player: In Memory Of Dudley Digges that begins with:

THE candles lighted and the figure prone
Announce this to you: they are laid aside,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXa X XXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,1,3,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 0101010101 0100111101 01010010101 1000010001 1101010101 0111011101 0101011100 0001010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 112
  • Average number of words per stanza: 19
  • Amount of lines: 8
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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  • summary of The Dead Player: In Memory Of Dudley Digges;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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