This is an analysis of the poem The Graveyard By The Sea that begins with:
This quiet roof, where dove-sails saunter by,
Between the pines, the tombs, throbs visibly....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcddccceabf eefggf hhaffa ddijji kkbffalj hefh iimljm ffhhhn lXaffa ooffff ccjiij aapcc p ffhoohhhnmmh ddchnc ppfjjf hhiqqi fXnoon barmmr ssdiid hhdabd hhitti uudffd n ie hXXXXeX cXXffX XXXXXX XXiXXX XeXccX kXXXaX eeXXXX cXXXXX XXXXXX XXXXXX XXXXXX XXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,6,6,6,8,4,6,6,6,6,6,5,1,12,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,1,2,7,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101111101 0101011100 0101100101 11010101110 111101011010 1011000101 1101111101 010110000101 1111010111 1111010011 11010010100 11001010101 11010100100 1001100100 1101010111 10010101101 1101001111 01100100101 10010101110 00110111010 1001000111 11101100001 1101000101 01000100101 101010100010 101010101010 10000111010 10110101001 111000000101 11111101010 100101101111 10110010111 1001110100 11110011010 100100111110 1001010101 11110111010 1101011101 1111001111 11110101001 1110101101 110101001 1111011101 101101101 0110110101 01010011010 11011100101 1001110111 11110100001 1111110101 1011011111 11011001001 1110001101 0111111111 11010001010 100101011010 0111010101 01111111110 11100111011 1111010101 11010001111 0101000101 1101111100 111101011 1101010101 01110101001 1011010101 0101111011 1011111101 011000100010 10011001010 11000110101 01110100111 11111100101 1001101001 1101010101 1101101101 1111010001 11010100111 110011110010 1101011101 101101100010 10010101110 1101110011 01010010011 1011110011 00010110111 1101110101 01001010101 1111110101 01110111010 01010111010 0101110001 01011011110 01110101110 1101110001 1111011101 0111010101 1111100101 0101011111 1100010111 1101010101 1101001111 100100100001 1001010111 0101010101 1111010111 1101110101 11011111011 11010101100 1101011111 01110111000 01111110010 1001111101 101111100110 01010110001 1101111101 0111110111 11011100111 1111010001 101010010010 11111011010 11111111010 1111010111 1101011001 11010101110 1101010001 1011010001 11111001010 0101010001 0111110100 111011011010 11010111010 01011011010 11001100110 1001111111 1001010101 111101001110 0101011101 01110111101 10011001010 11011101010 11110101010 01011111010 010011 010010 01011110 011110010111 11101101100 10111010110 100110101 111110100 110111 1010110111 110101101 110010001 111111100 1111011101 10011101 01101010110 101101010 10111001 1100111011 101011101 11101011 11111101 1001101101 11111101100 110010110 11111101 11000101 110011100 101111110 11111110 111111111 111101101 1011101 010011110 111110111 1110111 10011010 1110011010 1110111111 11001110 101110010 11110100010 011011110 111111110 10111110 0111110 11111111111 11111001 10011101 101010110 10111010 1011111010 111101100 1100110100 11111010 111111100 11101110 11011110 11111110 101010110 111110010 10100111010 110101101110 111111110 110110 110111001 111101010 01100110010 1011100100 110111010 10101000110 1011110 10111111 0111111110 110111110 11000111101 11111111 1111111 1011101100 111111101111 111101 11111010100 11111100110 11001101100 101011100 111111010 1111100110 011110100 111011101 10101111 010101111 11111101000 1101111000 1111111011 1110110100 1111110010 0110111001 01111111110 1101111110 111111101 111110111 1101110010 10101111110 1001110100 1011110110 11010110 11000111 100010001 1011111100 01101111 111101111101 11111110 11011000 1101010100 111110011 011001100 11111101110 1101111111 10111011111 1110101110 11111010100 10011111111 1110111111 1101111000 110111 1110111 111111111 011011111 10011101 1101001011 111011010 10111110 101111001 11001101 11111101 101110010 011101001 1011101 0111100001 11010111 11101001 111011010 01111111001 101111011 111111011 10011011 101010110 1110110011
- Amount of stanzas: 49
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 247
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 294
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, my, up, has, to, zeno, re, moi, les, et, mes, qui, le, ne, il, z, non, e are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words even, the, what, i, comme, quel, les, le are repeated.
The author used the same word i 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 me, e, re, tre, res, es are repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase enough connects the lines.
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- summary of The Graveyard By The Sea;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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