This is an analysis of the poem Dirge that begins with:
PLACE this bunch of mignonette
In her cold, dead hand;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabaccbdedebbAcfcfgggbbbbffAhbhbiiXjkjkeeX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 42,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010100 00111 1010101 10101 1000111 1110101 011 11101010 10101 11111110 10101 1011111 1110101 101 1010101 11101 1011100 11101 0111111 10011101 101 1110101 11111 1010011 11101 1110111 1001111 101 1010101 11111 1010111 10101 1011111 101010101 111 1010101 11101 1110101 101101 1110111 1010101 111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1117
- Average number of words per stanza: 217
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; has is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines asleep is repeated).
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Dirge;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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