This is an analysis of the poem A Death Song that begins with:
Lay me down beneaf de willers in de grass,
Whah de branch 'll go a-singin' as it pass....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbX ccddc eeXXe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 11110010001 10111010101 1110101 1110101 10111011111 11101110101 10101110111 10101001 1011111 10101011101 11101110111 10101010001 1110111 1011101 11101011101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 193
- Average number of words per stanza: 41
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length 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; it, de, an', to are repeated.
The author used the same word lay at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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